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CSE/LIN/PHI/PSY 575 & APY 526: INTRODUCTION TO COGNITIVE SCIENCE Spring 2011 Directory of Documents

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Directory of Documents

Note: A username and password may be required for some online papers. Please contact Bill Rapaport.

• UB Center for Cognitive Science Research Groups

• Guest Lectures

• Course Summary

1. What Is Cognitive Science?
   1. Sources of Information on Cognitive Science
   2. Classic Readings in Cognitive Science
   3. Miscellaneous Readings in Cognitive Science
   4. UB Center for Cognitive Science Research Groups

2. Philosophical Theories of Mind:
   1. What Is the Mind?
      1. What is philosophy?
      2. On the mind-body (or mind-brain) problem
      3. On eliminativism
      4. On functionalist theories of mind
      5. Do plants (or other non-higher-animal biological organisms) have minds?

   2. Theory of Mind

   3. Modularity of Mind

3. Neuroscience

4. AI as a cognitive science, rules, and connections
   1. AI as a cognitive science
   2. Rules
   3. Connections
   4. On Unconscious Cognition (a.k.a. "Implicit Learning", "Tacit Knowledge", "Intuition", or "instinct")
   5. The Dynamic Systems Approach

5. Reasoning

6. Concepts & Categories
   1. From MITECS
   2. Miller's magical number 7
   3. Eleanor Rosch et al.
   4. George Lakoff
   5. On color terms
   6. At UB

7. Lakoff & Johnson's Theory of Conceptual Metaphor

8. Mental Images

9. Memory

10. Vision (& Perception)

11. Emotion

12. Consciousness

13. Situated/Embedded/Extended Cognition

14. Interdisciplinary Cognitive Science Projects

15. Turing Test & Chinese Room Argument

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16. Miscellaneous:
    1. Wynn, Thomas; & Coolidge, Frederick L. (2008), "A Stone-Age Meeting of Minds", American Scientist 96(1) (January-February): 44-51.
       • Abstract: "Neandertals became extinct while Homo sapiens prospered. A marked contrast in mental capacities may account for these different fates."

    2. Pinker, Steven (2008), "The Moral Instinct", NY Times Magazine (13 January): 32-37, 52, 55-56, 58.

    3. Bloom, Paul (2010), "The Moral Life of Babies", New York Times Magazine (9 May): 44–49, 56, 62–63, 65.

    4. Deutscher, Guy (2010), "You Are What You Speak", New York Times Magazine (29 August): 42–47.
       • "The long-discredited idea [the Sapir-Whorf linguistic-relativity hypothesis] that your mother tongue shapes your experience of the world may be true after all."
       • For a critical review, see:
         Bickerton, Derek (2010), "Words Cannot Express", New York Times Book Review (September 5): 18

       • See also:
         Boroditsky, Lera (2011), "How Language Shapes Thought", Scientific American 304(2) (February): 63–65.