Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series

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11. The Emergence of Language

    Edited by Brian MacWhinney

    Series: Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series

    For nearly four centuries, our understanding of human development has been controlled by the debate between nativism and empiricism. Nowhere has the contrast between these apparent alternatives been sharper than in the study of language acquisition. However, as more is learned about the details of...

    Published March 14th 1999 by Psychology Press
12. The Emergence of Language

    Edited by Brian MacWhinney

    Series: Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series

    For nearly four centuries, our understanding of human development has been controlled by the debate between nativism and empiricism. Nowhere has the contrast between these apparent alternatives been sharper than in the study of language acquisition. However, as more is learned about the details of...

    Published January 31st 1999 by Psychology Press
13. Scientific Approaches to Consciousness

    Edited by Jonathan D. Cohen, Jonathan W. Schooler

    Series: Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series

    There are many ways to approach the understanding of consciousness. Questions about these ways have occupied philosophers and metaphysicians for centuries. During the early growth of cognitive science the problem of consciousness remained taboo, but an increasing number of studies have either...

    Published October 31st 1996 by Psychology Press
14. Implicit Memory and Metacognition

    Edited by Lynne M. Reder

    Series: Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series

    Metacognition is a term that spans many sub-areas in psychology and means different things to different people. A dominant view has been that metacognition involves the monitoring of performance in order to control cognition; however, it seems reasonable that much of this control runs implicitly (...

    Published October 31st 1996 by Psychology Press
15. Mind Matters

    A Tribute To Allen Newell

    Edited by David M. Steier, Tom M. Mitchell

    Series: Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series

    Based on a symposium honoring the extensive work of Allen Newell -- one of the founders of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, human-computer interaction, and the systematic study of computational architectures -- this volume demonstrates how unifying themes may be found in the diversity...

    Published May 31st 1996 by Psychology Press
16. The Neuropsychology of High-level Vision

    Collected Tutorial Essays

    Edited by Martha J. Farah, Graham Ratcliff

    Series: Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series

    This book provides a state-of-the-art review of high-level vision and the brain. Topics covered include object representation and recognition, category-specific visual knowledge, perceptual processes in reading, top-down processes in vision -- including attention and mental imagery -- and the...

    Published April 30th 1994 by Psychology Press
17. Visual Perception and Cognition in infancy

    Edited by Carl Granrud, Carl E. Granrud

    Series: Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series

    The chapters in this book are based on papers presented at the 23rd Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition. At this exciting event, speaker after speaker presented new discoveries about infants' visual perception in areas ranging from sensory processes to visual cognition. The field continues to...

    Published September 30th 1992 by Psychology Press
18. Architectures for Intelligence

    The 22nd Carnegie Mellon Symposium on Cognition

    Edited by Kurt VanLehn, Kurt Van Lehn

    Series: Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series

    This unique volume focuses on computing systems that exhibit intelligent behavior. As such, it discusses research aimed at building a computer that has the same cognitive architecture as the mind -- permitting evaluations of it as a model of the mind -- and allowing for comparisons between...

    Published September 30th 1991 by Psychology Press
19. Complex Information Processing

    The Impact of Herbert A. Simon

    Edited by David Klahr, Kenneth Kotovsky

    Series: Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series

    Here, several leading experts in the area of cognitive science summarize their current research programs, tracing Herbert A. Simon's influence on their own work -- and on the field of information processing at large. Topics covered include problem- solving, imagery, reading, writing, memory,...

    Published January 31st 1989 by Psychology Press
20. Mechanisms of Language Acquisition

    The 20th Annual Carnegie Mellon Symposium on Cognition

    Edited by Brian MacWhinney

    Series: Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series

    Published March 31st 1987 by Psychology Press