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Showing 1 to 20 of 284 for “"Cognitive science"”.
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Towards explanatory pluralism in cognitive science
… explanatory frameworks currently used within cognitive science. The driving question of this philosophical investigation concerns the nature and structure of cognitive explanation. More specifically, I attempt to clarify whether the sort of scientific explanations proposed for various …
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Rationality and the limits of cognitive science
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1992.
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Prospects for a cognitive science of science
Cognitive science of science attempts to explain a range of phenomena familiar to philosophers of science, such as theory choice and scientific discovery. The appeal to cognitive science may be seen as an attempt to naturalize the philosophy of science. I examine and criticize several of the most …
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Situated Cognition, Dynamicism, and Explanation in Cognitive Science
The majority of cognitive scientists today view the mind as a computer, instantiating some function mapping the inputs it gets from the environment to the gross behaviors of the organism. As a result, the emphasis in most ongoing research programmes is on finding that function, or some part of that …
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Perception and cognition : insights from Kant and cognitive science
… thinkers and the empirical findings of cognitive science. By identifying theoretical missteps and drawing insights from them, we can attain a plausible view of ourselves as seers, thinkers, and knowers. My project is comprised of three stages, collectively forming a narrative. I begin …
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Using Principles from Cognitive Science to Analyze and Guide Language-Related Neural Networks
… of human-like language processing, borrowed from cognitive science literature, afford metrics for evaluating AI models. In this thesis, I borrow two theories about human language processing for such analysis. First, human naming systems (e.g., a language’s words for colors such as “red” or “blue”) …
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The Twenty-First Century Mechanistic Theory of Human Cognition: A Critical Appraisal
… influential fundamental theories in the field of cognitive science. The main idea is to provide an account of what human neuro-cognitive complex mechanisms are and how to explain them. The theory proposes an ambitious revolutionary unified view of human cognition that can provide foundations and …
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A synthesis of cognitive science research on the mental number line, and its relation to the pedagogical use of number lines in the teaching of elementary arithmetic in the Foundation Phase of schooling
… study is a synthesis of the research findings in cognitive science and mathematics education to elucidate the mechanisms that underpin the connection between the mental number line in humans and its relation to the growth of mathematical knowledge in young children. This reported research drawn …
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Action Reconsidered. Cognitive Aspects of the Relation between Script and Scenic Action
Contemporary cognitive science challenges the idea about the human brain as a kind of computor. Instead the importance of the body for our way to understand and interact with the world has come into focus. Theories about the ”situated” and ”embodied” character of human cognition have entailed that …
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An argument against the conjunction of direct realism and the standard causal picture
… is fleshed out in terms of contemporary cognitive science, the difficulties are compounded. Neither representation-friendly mainstream cognitive science, nor representation-averse radical embodied cognitive science, is compatible with a theory of perception which is at the same time both …
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Investigations linking the philosophy and psychology of mathematics
Recent progress in the field of cognitive science, specifically with respect to mathematical cognition, along with the turn in the philosophy of mathematics to a focus on mathematical practice, make for a great opportunity for interdisciplinary work that brings together the cognitive science of …
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The distribution of fibers from amygdala, thalamus and cortex within the striatum of the cat
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Science, 1988.
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Translating Embodiment: A Look at Language and Cognition of Dance Performance from Studio to Stage
… as it emerges not from an intricately unfolding cognitive program, but from a dynamic dance in which body, perception, and world guide each other’s step,” says cognitive dance researcher Edward C. Warburton. This research connects phenomenological theories of embodiment with long-standing and …
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Structural Priming in Bilingual Language Processing and Second Language Learning
… implications for research on bilingualism in cognitive science, psycholinguistics, and second language acquisition.
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Seeing things as people: anthropomorphism and common-sense psychology
… is about common-sense psychology and its role in cognitive science. Put simply, the argument is that common-sense psychology is important because it offers clues to some complex problems in cognitive science, and because common-sense psychology has significant effects on our intuitions, both in …
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Mediated Cognition: Information Technologies and the Sciences of Mind
… interconnections between minds, media, and the cognitive sciences. It asks what it means for media to have effects upon the mind: do our tools influence the ways that we think? It considers what scientific evidence can be brought to bear on the question: how can we know and measure these …
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Emotion as information : inferring the unobserved causes of others' emotional expressions
Research in the domain of cognitive science has tended to neglect emotions. In my thesis, I take several steps to fill this gap by looking at people's representation of emotions, and its connection to other representations typically studied in cognitive science. I argue that people have an …
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It's all in the mind : an integrative approach to teaching and learning
In this dissertation the researcher uses cognitive science and communication science to develop an integrative motivational learning framework for teaching intermediate phase learners to solve problems in the subject domains of mathematical literacy, language literacy, natural science, economic and …
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Metatheater in the French Baroque: The Boundaries of Cognition, the Power of Spectacle, and the Horror of Violence
… of the relations between mind and brain in cognitive science, this project explores how this expansion of the play beyond itself includes the human organism. In analyzing metatheater with Early Modern thought, neurophenomenology, cognitive linguistics, enactive theories of mind, and also …
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The Teleological Theory of Representation
… better account of explanation in psychology and cognitive science than its main competitor, non-teleological functionalism. Grounds for evaluating competing models of explanation are presented and several recent accounts of psychological explanation are analyzed and evaluated. An inclusive model, …
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