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Cognitive science: An introduction, N. A. Stillings, M. H. Feinstein, J. L. Garfield, E. L. Rissland, D. A. Rosenbaum, S. E. Weisler and L. Baker-Ward, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1987 No. of pages: 553. ISBN 0-262-19257-8, Price £22.50 by Tim Valentine is a Psychology article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Cognitive science: An introduction, N. A. Stillings, M. H. Feinstein, J. L. Garfield, E. L. Rissland, D. A. Rosenbaum, S. E. Weisler and L. Baker-Ward, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1987 No. of pages: 553. ISBN 0-262-19257-8, Price £22.50 about?

The authors' aim in writing this book is to provide an introductory text for students of cognitive science. As such it is primarily intended as a course text for undergraduate students. The layout incorporates a number of features which would be helpful in using the book for teaching. It starts with a comprehensive set of notes for the teacher which give an outline of the contents of each chapter and recommends where omissions could be made, and which chapters should be considered prerequisites for others. Each chapter ends with a paragraph making useful suggestions for further reading. The authors see cognitive science as composed of five disciplines. After an introductory chapter in which the notion of a cognitive science is introduced, and its interdisciplinary nature stressed, each of the disciplines is discussed in turn. There are two chapters on each of cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence and one chapter on each of linguistics, neuroscience and philosophy. The remaining four chapters cover applications of cognitive science, focusing on topics which the authors feel would benefit from a more interdisciplinary approach. These chapters cover language acquisition, se

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Author

Tim Valentine

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0888-4080)

Published

1989

Language

EN

ISBN

9782350030111

Field

Psychology (Social Sciences)