Cognitive Science: An Introduction to Mind and Brain

by Daniel Kolak, William Hirstein, Jonathan Waskan, et al.

Book Overview

Cognitive Science is a major new guide to the central theories and problems in the study of the mind and brain. The authors clearly explain how and why cognitive science aims to understand the brain as a computational system that manipulates representations. They identify the roots of cognitive science in Descartes - who argued that all knowledge of the external world is filtered through some sort of representation - and examine the present-day...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415221013
• ISBN13: 9780415221016
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.5" x 9.6"