Table of Contents

Symbolic processes in the brain - the case of insect navigation, Charles R. Gallistel; The mental representation of time - uncovering a biological clock, Seth Roberts; The evolution of cognition - questions we will never answer, Richard C. Lewontin; Consciousness and the mind - contributions from philosophy, neuroscience, and psychology, Owen Flanagan, Donald T. Dryden; Cognitive algorithms - questions of representation and computation in building a theory, Mark Steedman; A gentle introduction to Soar - an architecture for human cognition, Jill Fain Lehman et al; Learning arithmetic with a neural network - seven times seven is about 50, James a. anderson; Models for reading letters and words, Dominic W. Massaro; Inferring mental operations from reaction-time data - how we compare objects, Saul Sternberg; Models of visual search - finding a face in the crowd, Barbara Anne Dosher; Skill acquisition and plans for actions - learning to write with your other hand, Patricia G. Lindenmann, Charles E. Wright; Drawing conclusions from data - statistical methods for coping with uncertainty, Thomas D. Wickens; Separating discrimination and decision in detection, recognition, and matters of life and death, John A. Swets; Discovering mental processing stages - the method of additive factors, Saul Sternberg; Brainwaves and mental processes - electrical evidence of attention, perception, and intention, Allen Osman.

About the Author

Daniel N. Osherson is at MIT. Ned Block is Silver Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at New York University and was Chair of the Philosophy Program at MIT from 1990 to 1995. He is a coeditor of The Nature of Consciousness: Philosophical Debates (MIT Press, 1997). Susan Carey is the Henry A. Morss Jr. and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor of Psychology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She is the first woman to receive the 2009 David E. Rumelhart Prize, given annually since 2001 for significant contributions to the theoretical foundation of human cognition. Paul M. Churchland is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul, Matter and Consciousness: A Contemporary Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind (both published by the MIT Press), and other books. Fred Dretske is Senior Research Scholar in the Department of Philosophy, Duke University. Alvin I. Goldman is Professor of Philosophy and Research Scientist in Cognitive Science at the University of Arizona. Morris Halle is Institute Professor and Professor of Linguistics Emeritus at MIT. John Hollerbach is an Associate Professor in the MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Keith J. Holyoak, Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, is a psychologist and poet. He is the coauthor or editor of a number of books on cognitive psychology and has published three volumes of poetry. Stephen M. Kosslyn is Founding Dean and Chief Academic Officer of the Minerva Schools at KGI (the Keck Graduate Institute) and John Lindsley Professor of Psychology in Memory of William James, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He is the coauthor of Cognitive Psychology: Mind And Brain and the author of Image and Brain: The Resolution of the Imagery Debate (MIT Press). Richard K. Larson is Professor of Linguistics at Stony Brook University. Howard Lasnik is a Professor at the University of Connecticut. Steven Pinker is Harvard College Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. His books TheLanguage Instinct, How the Mind Works, The Blank Slate, and The Better Angels of Our Nature have won numerous prizes. Stephen Stich is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and author of From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science. Shimon Ullman is Samy and Ruth Cohn Professor of Computer Science at Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Alan Yuille is Professor in the Department of Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles.