The complex mind: an interdisciplinary approach

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 themind, 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. INDICE: 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 Roleof 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.

• ISBN: 978-0-230-24757-4
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 272
• Fecha Publicación: 27/04/2012
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