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An Interdisciplinary Approach
David McFarland, Keith Stenning, Maggie McGonigle
ISBN: 9780230247574
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
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Combining the study of animal minds, artificial minds, and human evolution, this book examine the advances made by comparative psychologists in explaining the intelligent behaviour of primates,the design of artificial autonomous systems and the cognitive products of language evolution.
The dominant approach of the last century to behaviour was 'associationism' - reducing the complexity of behaviour to the homogeneous strengthening and weakening of simple connections between stimuli and responses. Chomsky's devastating critique of this account of human language in the 1960s, resulted in a cease fire with human's allowed 'cognitive minds' with more expressive machinery, and animals resigned to the graveyard of associations. As messy as all ceasefires, this one left some animal researchers thinking associationism as bad a theory for animals as for people. But the good effect was that there was a broad appreciation that no one discipline would understand the complexities of the mind, and their origins. This book brings comparative and developmental psychology, robotics, linguistics and philosophy to bear on the problem of understanding the biological continuities and discontinuities of the human mind.
| ISBN | 0230247571 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | ISBN13 | 9780230247574
(What's this?) | | Pages | 312 | | Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan | | Published in | Basingstoke | | Imprint | Palgrave Macmillan | | Height (mm) | 222 | | Format | Hardback | | Width (mm) | 141 | | Publication date | 17 May 2012 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY | 156 | |
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Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors PART I: COMPLEXITY IN ANIMAL MINDS Introduction: M.McGonigle-Chalmers Relational and Absolute Discrimination Learning by Squirrel Monkeys: Establishing a Common Ground with Human Cognition; B.T.Jones Serial List Retention by Non-Human Primates: Complexity and Cognitive Continuity; F.R.Treichler The Use of Spatial Structure in Working Memory: A Comparative Standpoint; C.De Lillo The Emergence of Linear Sequencing in Children: A Continuity Account and a Formal Model; M.McGonigle-Chalmers & I.Kusel Sensitivity to Quantity: What Counts Across Species?; S.T.Boysen & A.M.Yocom PART II: COMPLEXITY IN ROBOTS Editorial Introduction; D.McFarland Towards Cognitive Robotics: Robotics, Biology and Developmental Psychology; M.Lee, U.Nehmzow & M.Rodriguez Structuring Intelligence: The Role of Hierarchy, Modularity and Learning in Generating Intelligent Behaviour; J.J.Bryson Epistemology, Access, and Computational Models; G.Luger Reasoning About Representations in Autonomous Systems: What P'Olya and Lakatos Have To Say; A.Bundy PART III: LANGUAGE, EVOLUTION AND THE COMPLEX MIND Editorial Introduction; K.Stenning How to Qualify for a Cognitive Upgrade: Executive Control, Glass Ceilings, and the Limits of Simian Success; A.Clark Private Codes and Public Structures; C.Allen The Emergence of Complex Language; W.Hinzen Language Evolution: Enlarging the Picture; K.Stenning & M.Van Lambalgen Epilogue: Reminiscences of Brendan McGonigle Index
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