Cognition Process, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science; Foundations of Cognitive Science, Cognitive Science and Multi-disciplinary; Machines and Minds; Laws thoughts to binary logic; Classical Cognitive Science; Connectionist Cognitive Science; Mind body Problem; Turing Response to Mind Body Problem; Pinker, Penerose and Searle’s Responses to Mind Body Problem; Representational Theory of Mind; Theories of Mental Representation: Minimal Analysis of mental representation, Resemblance theories of mental representation, Casual covariation theories of mental representation, internal roles theories of mental representation
Chapter 2
Precursors of Cognitive Science
Behaviorism; Theory of Computation and Algorithms; Algorithms and Turing Machines; Marr’s Three Level of Computation; Linguistics and Formal Language; Information Processing Models in Psychology
Chapter 3
Psycological Perspective of Cognition
Cognitive Models of Memory, Atkinson-Shiffrin’s Model, Tulving’s Model, Mental Imagery, Kosslyn’s View, Moyer’s View, Peterson’s View, Cognitive Maps, Problem Understanding, States of Cognition, Cognition in AI
Chapter 4
Physical Symbol System and Language of Thought
Physical Symbol System Hypothesis; Symbol and Symbol Systems; Problem Solving by Symbol Structure; Physical Symbol System to Language of Thoughts; The Computer Model of the Mind; Syntax and the Language of Thought: Fodor’s Argument for the Language of Thought Hypothesis; The Chinese Room Argument; Chinese Room and Turing Test; The Symbol Ground Problem
Chapter 5
Cognitive System
Cognitive System; Architecture for intelligent agents; Modularity of Mind; Modularity Hypothesis; The ACT-R/PM architecture\n93
Structure and Function in Brain; Anatomical Connectivity; Cognitive Functioning Techniques from Neuroscience; Mapping the brain’s electrical activity: EEG and MEG; Mapping the brain’s blood flow and blood oxygen levels: PET and fMRI; Attention; Visuospatial attention
Metarepresentation; Metarepresentation, autism, and theory of mind; Mind Reading System; Understanding False Belief; Mind Reading as Simulation
Chapter 8
Neural Networks and Distributed Information Processing
Neurally Inspired Models of Information Processing; Single-Layer Networks and Boolean Functions; Multilayer Networks; Information Processing in Neural Networks; Language Learning in Neural Networks; Neural Network Models of Children’s Physical Reasoning
