1 Background Cognitive Science, quite simply, attempts to provide solutions to the question of how mind and brain are related or, more generally, what constitutes mind/brain. Classical cognitive science (CCS), together with its subdiscipline of artiicial intelligence (AI), is based on Newell and Simon's (1976) explicit commitment to thèPhysical Symbol System Hypothesis' | the idea that all inte...

When interpreting the actions of people from other societies from a moral point of view, we often err. Two types of errors are of particular relevance here. One consists in overestimating the similarity across cultures of the moral judgments that guide people’s actions and interactions. The other consists in underestimating this similarity. Arguably, the first kind of error is common among psyc...

The purpose of this paper is to review the way in which cultural contributions to human nature have been treated within the fi eld of cognitive science. I was initially motivated to write about this topic when invited to give a talk to a Cognitive Science department at a sister university in California a few years ago. My goal, on that occasion, was to convince my audience, none of whom were pr...

Networks of interconnected nodes have long played a key role in Cognitive Science, from artificial neural networks to spreading activation models of semantic memory. Recently, however, a new Network Science has been developed, providing insights into the emergence of global, system-scale properties in contexts as diverse as the Internet, metabolic reactions, and collaborations among scientists....

Rich scientific disciplines defy simple definition, and Cognitive Science is no exception. For present purposes Cognitive Science can be defined broadly as the scientific study of minds and brains, be they real, artificial, human or animal. In practice Cognitive Science has been more limited, largely restricting itself to domains in which there is reasonable hope of attaining real understanding...

TITLE: Language Related and Spontaneous Oscillatory Responses in Acquired Language Disorders ABSTRACT: Mapping oscillatory neural activity with magnetoencephalography (MEG) is a powerful method for revealing the functional organization of different aspect of language, and the changes associated with stroke. Considerable changes in the cortical representation of language processing can follow 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...

I The neo-classical approach to analyzing the performance of an economy assumes that in the face of pervasive scarcity individuals make choices reflecting a set of desires, wants or preferences. The theory is derived from the aggregation of those preferences in the context of fixed resources, private goods, and given technology. (Schofield, 1995, p 192) The result has been a powerful set of too...