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The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (Bradford Book) (Bradford Book) | 
 enlarge | Author: Ra Wilson
Publisher: MIT Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 45541
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 1096
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Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.5 x 1.8
ISBN: 0262731444
Dewey Decimal Number: 153
EAN: 9780262731447
ASIN: 0262731444
Publication Date: October 10, 2001
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Amazon.co.uk Review
The state-of-the-art knowledge about knowledge is contained within the MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences. Its 471 comprehensive entries cover topics as diverse as "Hemispheric Specialization," "Epiphenomenalism" and "Algorithms" in 1000-1500 words each, thoroughly cross-indexed and extensively referenced to launch further research. A few biographical entries are also included, highlighting such giants as Alan Turing and Santiago Ramon y Cajal. The editors selected their contributors well, assigning "Neurobiology of Consciousness" to Christof Koch and Francis Crick, for example. Even better, six longer essays introduce the Encyclopedia, each providing an overview of one of the six disciplines that overlap to form cognitive science: computational intelligence; culture, cognition and evolution; linguistics and language; neurosciences; philosophy, and psychology. These are enormously helpful to the researcher, as they are general enough to allow easy entry while still being meaty enough to be useful themselves as well as pointers to specific entries. The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences, while not a casual entry into the field, is an essential addition to the reference shelf for anyone seriously interested in AI, consciousness, or other aspects of natural and artificial brains. --Rob Lightner, Amazon.com
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useful and interesting October 12, 2002
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This is a very useful reference tool. Each entry is a short article about an important topic in cognitive science and it is written by some of the experts in that particular topic. For example, the entry on primate cognition is by Marc Hauser, the entry on animal navigation is by Randy Gallistel, the entry on Theory of Mind is by Alison Gopnik, the entry on metarepresentation is by Dan Sperber, etc. Most of the articles are well-written. And most of them have a good list of references at the end. MIT-style cognitive science is an interdisciplinary enterprise. This is why the Encyclopedia contains articles on topics belonging to six different areas: philosophy, psychology, neurosciences, computational intelligence, linguistics, and cultural cognition. The Encyclopedia also contains six essays, one for each of the six areas. The essays are useful introductions.
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