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Despite their apparently divergent accounts of higher cognition, cognitive theories based on neural computation and those employing symbolic computation can in fact strengthen one another. To substantiate this controversial claim, this landmark work develops in depth a cognitive architecture based in neural computation but supporting formally explicit higher-level symbolic descriptions, including new grammar formalisms.Detailed studies in both phonology and syntax provide arguments that these grammatical theories and their neural network realizations enable deeper explanations of early acquisition, processing difficulty, cross-linguistic typology, and the possibility of genomically encoding universal principles of grammar. Foundational questions concerning the explanatory status of symbols for central problems such as the unbounded productivity of higher cognition are also given proper treatment.The work is made accessible to scholars in different fields of cognitive science through tu

Using Large Corpora identifies new data-oriented methods for organizing and analyzing large corpora and describes the potential results that the use of large corpora offers. Today, large corpora con

This introduction to the interdisciplinary study of cognition takes the novel approach of bringing several disciplines to bear on the subject of communication. Using the perspectives of linguistics,

Neuromorphic engineers work to improve the performance of artificial systems through the development of chips and systems that process information collectively using primarily analog circuits. This bo

A blueprint for the investigation of neurodevelopmental disorders, this book presents the work of a team of scientists using a multidisciplinary, integrated approach to link genes with human behavior.

Using sentence comprehension as a case study for all of cognitive science, David Townsend and Thomas Bever offer an integration of two major approaches, the symbolic-computational and the associative-

Using sentence comprehension as a case study for all of cognitive science, David Townsend and Thomas Bever offer an integration of two major approaches, the symbolic-computational and the associative-

Auditory Scene Analysis addresses the problem of hearing complex auditory environments, using a series of creative analogies todescribe the process required of the human auditory system as itanalyzes

Using the tools of complexity theory, Stephen Judd develops a formal description of associative learning in connectionist networks. He rigorously exposes the computational difficulties in training neu

In Natural Ethical Facts William Casebeer argues that we can articulate a fullynaturalized ethical theory using concepts from evolutionary biology and cognitive science, and thatwe can study moral cog

Using the language of common-sense psychology (CSP), we explain human behavior byciting its reason or purpose, and this is central to our understanding of human beings as agents. Onthe other hand, sin

Many different things are said to have meaning: people mean to do various things; tools and other artifacts are meant for various things; people mean various things by using words and sentences. Ruth

In Natural Ethical Facts William Casebeer argues that we can articulate a fully naturalized ethical theory using concepts from evolutionary biology and cognitive science, and that we can study moral c

This original and timely collection is one of the first books to study neuraldevelopment using computational and mathematical modeling. Modeling provides precise and exact waysof expression, which all

1994 Grawemeyer Award in Improving World Order. Schools for Thought provides a straightforward, general introduction to cognitive research and illustrates its importance for educational change. Using

Genetic Programming II extends the results of John Koza's ground-breaking work on programming by means of natural selection, described in his first book, Genetic Programming. Using a hierarchical appr

The last decade has seen computational implementations of large hand-crafted natural language grammars in formal frameworks such as Tree-Adjoining Grammar (TAG), Combinatory Categorical Grammar (CCG)

Industry veteran Raymond Nickerson provides an extensive introduction to the information technology revolution that is transforming industrial society. He focuses particularly on the study of person-c

The remarkable achievements that modern science has made in physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, and engineering contrast sharply with our limited knowledge of the human mind and behavior. A major

The significantly expanded and updated new edition of a widely used text on reinforcement learning, one of the most active research areas in artificial intelligence.Reinforcement learning, one of the

The landmark reference in the field, completely updated: a comprehensive treatment of a disorder that is more prevalent than autism.Children with specific language impairment (SLI) show a significant

People commonly use age to categorize and stereotype others--even though those who stereotype the elderly are eventually bound to become elderly themselves. Ageism is found cross-culturally, but it is

Groundbreaking essays and commentaries on the ways that recent findings in psychology and neuroscience illuminate virtue and character and related issues in philosophy.Philosophers have discussed virt

Before The Computational Brain was published in 1992, conceptual frameworks for brain function were based on the behavior of single neurons, applied globally. In The Computational Brain, Patricia Ch

Evolutionary computation, the use of evolutionary systems as computational processes for solving complex problems, is a tool used by computer scientists and engineers who want to harness the power of

Josef Stern addresses the question: Given the received conception of the form and goals of semantic theory, does metaphorical interpretation, in whole or part, fall within its scope?The many philosoph

Hao Wang (1921-1995) was one of the few confidants of the great mathematician and logician Kurt Gödel. A Logical Journey is a continuation of Wang's Reflections on Gödel

Despite decades of scientific research, the core issues of child development remain too complex to be explained by traditional verbal theories. These issues include structure and transition, represent

In this landmark 1984 work on free will, Daniel Dennett makes a case for compatibilism. His aim, as he writes in the preface to this new edition, was a cleanup job, "saving everything that ma

In The Myth of the Intuitive, Max Deutsch defends the methods of analytic philosophy against a recent empirical challenge mounted by the practitioners of experimental philosophy (xphi). This challenge

Thinking Things Through offers a broad, historical, and rigorous introduction to the logical tradition in philosophy and its contemporary significance. It is unique among introductory philosophy texts

The computer analogy of the mind has been as widely adopted in contemporary cognitiveneuroscience as was the analogy of the brain as a collection of organs in phrenology. Just as thephrenologist would

Although the therapeutic benefits of touch have become increasingly clear, Americansociety, claims Tiffany Field, is dangerously touch-deprived. Many schools have "no touch"policies; the isolating eff

Over the last three million years or so, our lineage has diverged sharply from thoseof our great ape relatives. Change has been rapid (in evolutionary terms) and pervasive. Morphology,life history, so

In The Measure of Madness, Philip Gerrans offers a novelexplanation of delusion. Over the last two decades, philosophers and cognitive scientists haveinvestigated explanations of delusion that interwe

The event-related potential (ERP) technique, in which neural responses to specificevents are extracted from the EEG, provides a powerful noninvasive tool for exploring the humanbrain. This volume desc

This book considers scientific method in the behavioral sciences, with particularreference to psychology. Psychologists learn about research methods and use them to conduct theirresearch, but their tr

This new edition of the widely read Evolution in Four Dimensionshas been revised to reflect the spate of new discoveries in biology since the book was firstpublished in 2005, offering corrections, an

Traditional philosophers approached the issues of free will and moral responsibilitythrough conceptual analysis that seldom incorporated findings from empirical science. In recentdecades, however, str

Traditional philosophers approached the issues of free will and moral responsibilitythrough conceptual analysis that seldom incorporated findings from empirical science. In recentdecades, however, str