Experiences of art involve exercise of ordinary cognitive and perceptual capacities but in unique ways. These two features of experiences of art imply the mutual importance of aesthetics and cognitive science. Cognitive science provides empirical and theoretical analysis of the relevant cognitive capacities. Aesthetics thus does well to incorporate cognitive scientific research. Aesthetics also...

Cognitive research has found people are sometimes adept and inept at handling complexity. Complexity is a key concept in much of cognitive science, yet the field scarcely incorporated any work complexity theory. theory may generally be too abstract to easily apply human cognition studies. Here, problem addressed by considering through constructing model epistemic emergence, Cognitive-Habitat St...

Our aim is to show that the logical point of view and methods of logic are indispensable for the understanding of human cognition. However, the results of some well known psychological experiments may be seen as denying the relevance of logic in studying human reasoning. Wrong design decisions and interpretations of these experiments are analyzed in this chapter. Arguments supporting an externa...

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) has a serious claim to be the single most influential figure in the pre20th century history of cognitive research. His influence continues to be so deep-running that in many respects he is the intellectual grandfather of contemporary cognitive science. Consider the widely-held view that sensory input has to be worked up using concepts or concept-like states, or the con...

Experiences of art involve exercise of ordinary cognitive and perceptual capacities but in unique ways. These two features of experiences of art imply the mutual importance of aesthetics and cognitive science. Cognitive science provides empirical and theoretical analysis of the relevant cognitive capacities. Aesthetics thus does well to incorporate cognitive scientific research. And aesthetics ...

The computer model of the mind has informed and guided debate in the cognitive sciences for over 40 years, and gives pride of place to symbols. In this paper I investigate the nature of computational symbols and show that even in the parade cases of symbolic computation, symbols are not doing all the semantic and computational work. This analysis has important consequences for the scope of cogn...

The aim of Schunn, Crowley and Okada’s (1998) study is to address the question of whether the current state of cognitive science, as represented by Cognitive Science and the Cognitive Science Society, “reflects the multidisciplinary ideals of its foundation.” To properly interpret and respond to their results, we need to ask a prior question: What is cognitive science’s multidisciplinary ideal?...

Within the general objective of conceiving a cognitive architecture for image interpretation able to generate outputs relevant to several target user profiles, the paper elaborates on a set of operations that should be provided by a cognitive space to guarantee the generation of relevant descriptions. First, it attempts to define a working definition of contrast operation. Then, revisiting well...

In the twentieth century, no person epitomized more dramatically the “Renaissance mind” than Herbert A. Simon (1916–2001). In a working life spanning over 60 years, Simon made seminal contributions to administrative theory, axiomatic foundations of physics, economics, sociology, econometrics, cognitive psychology, logic of scientific discovery, and artificial intelligence. Simon’s life of the m...

While computational cognitive modeling has made great strides in addressing complex dynamic tasks, the modeling of individual differences in complex tasks remains a largely unexplored area of research. In this paper we present a straightforward approach to modeling individual differences, specifically age-related cognitive differences, in complex tasks, and illustrate the application of this ap...