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English | ISBN: 900450723X | 2022 | 340 pages | PDF | 31 MB
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Free Download Professor Graeme S Halford, "Categorizing Cognition: Toward Conceptual Coherence in the Foundations of Psychology "
English | ISBN: 0262028077 | 2014 | 376 pages | PDF | 5 MB
A proposal for a categorization of cognition based on core properties of the constituent processes that integrates theory and empirical findings across domains.

Free Download Computers and Cognition: Why Minds are not Machines by James H. Fetzer
English | PDF | 2001 | 334 Pages | ISBN : 0792366158 | 33.8 MB
An important collection of studies providing a fresh and original perspective on the nature of mind, including thoughtful and detailed arguments that explain why the prevailing paradigm - the computational conception of language and mentality - can no longer be sustained. An alternative approach is advanced, inspired by the work of Charles S. Peirce, according to which minds are sign-using (or `semiotic') systems, which in turn generates distinctions between different kinds of minds and overcomes problems that burden more familiar alternatives. Unlike conceptions of minds as machines, this novel approach has obvious evolutionary implications, where differences in semiotic abilities tend to distinguish the species. From this point of view, the scope and limits of computer and AI systems can be more adequately appraised and alternative accounts of consciousness and cognition can be more thoroughly criticised.

Free Download Computational Cognition
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031374983 | 247 Pages | PDF (True) | 7 MB
Modern science is divided into three parts: natural sciences, engineering sciences and humanities. Over the last millennia, natural and engineering sciences evolved a symbiotic relationship, but humanities still stand apart. Today, however, designing and building a talking robot is a comparatively new challenge for which all three branches are needed. Starting from the idea that designing a theory of computational cognition should be as complete as possible, and trying to answer questions such as "Which ontology is required for building a computational cognition?", the current book integrates interfaces, components, functional flows, data structure, database schema, and algorithms into a coherent system with an extensive range of cognitive functions, and constitutes the background to the book "Ontology of Communication" recently published by the author (Springer, 2023).

Free Download Wolfgang Tschacher, "The Implications of Embodiment: Cognition and Communication"
English | ISBN: 1845402405 | 2011 | 279 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This edited volume is scientifically based, but readable for a larger audience, covering the concept of "embodied cognition" and its implications from a transdisciplinary angle. The contributions are from the fields of psychology, computer science, biology, philosophy, and psychiatry.

Free Download Handbook of Abductive Cognition by Lorenzo Magnani
English | PDF,EPUB | 2023 | 1921 Pages | ISBN : 3031101340 | 80.2 MB
This Handbook offers the first comprehensive reference guide to the interdisciplinary field of abductive cognition, providing readers with extensive information on the process of reasoning to hypotheses in humans, animals, and in computational machines. It highlights the role of abduction in both theory practice: in generating and testing hypotheses and explanatory functions for various purposes and as an educational device. It merges logical, cognitive, epistemological and philosophical perspectives with more practical needs relating to the application of abduction across various disciplines and practices, such as in diagnosis, creative reasoning, scientific discovery, diagrammatic and ignorance-based cognition, and adversarial strategies.

Free Download Gesualdo M. Zucco, Rachel S. Herz, Benoist Schaal, "Olfactory Cognition: From Perception and Memory to Environmental Odours and Neuroscience"
English | 2012 | pages: 338 | ISBN: 9027213518 | PDF | 9,2 mb
This book was conceived as a tribute to one of the founders of the psychological study of the sense of smell, Professor Trygg Engen. The book is divided into four sections. The first reunites the fields of psychophysics and the perception of environmental odours and discusses the impact of odours on beliefs and expectations. The second addresses cognitive processes in olfaction, how odours are interpreted, lexicalized, associated with contexts and remembered. The third focuses on the cerebral bases of olfactory awareness and the neuropsychological investigation of olfaction with special emphasis on olfactory dysfunctions, and the last concerns affective and developmental processes in olfaction. The aim in producing this book is that it will help promote further research in olfactory cognition and attract new inquisitive scientists to the field. The volume will be a useful resource for academics, students, and professionals who study olfaction, as well as to scientists who work in the domains of perception, cognitive neuroscience and environmental psychology more broadly.

Free Download Characterizing Consciousness: From Cognition to the Clinic? by Stanislas Dehaene, Yves Christen
English | PDF | 2011 | 214 Pages | ISBN : 3642180140 | 3.4 MB
Fifteen of the foremost scientists in this field presented testable theoretical models of consciousness and discussed how our understanding of the role that consciousness plays in our cognitive processes is being refined with some surprising results.

Stephen von Tetzchner, "Typical and Atypical Child Development 4 Cognition, Intelligence and Learning: Cognition, Intelligence and Learning "
English | ISBN: 1032267755 | 2022 | 346 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This concise guide offers an accessible introduction to cognitive development in childhood and adolescence. It integrates insights from typical and atypical development to reveal fundamental aspects of human growth and development, and common developmental disorders.

Heidi Kloos, Bradley Morris, Joseph Amaral, "Current Topics in Children's Learning and Cognition"
English | 2012 | pages: 160 | ISBN: 9535108557 | PDF | 5,5 mb
As a whole, the essays in this book address theoretical and empirical issues related to children's learning and cognition. The first essay, titled Learning in Cognitive Niches, treats the process of sense making on a theoretical level, discussing the complexity of factors that give rise to children's learning. It is followed by an essay, titled Using the Dynamics of a Person-Context System to Describe Children's Understanding of Air Pressure, that applies ideas from complexity science and dynamics-systems theory to children's learning about science. The next four essays summarize and synthesize already published findings, in an effort to go beyond individual viewpoints and present a more nuanced picture of children's sense making. In particular, two of these summaries, Preschoolers Learning Science: Myth or Reality? and The Emergence of Scientific Reasoning, focus on children's ability to make sense of their physical environment. The essay Cognition and the Child Witness: Understanding the Impact of Cognitive Development in Forensic Contexts seeks to shed light on children's sense making relevant to forensic issues. And the essay Beyond the Black-and-White of Autism: How Cognitive Performance Varies with Context ventures in the area of autism, a disorder that demonstrates atypical processes of combining pieces of information. The final two essays provide original data to add to the discussion of what factors affect cognitive functioning. In particular, the essay Cognitive Fitness in Young Adult Video Game Players seeks to re-assess the often-assumed relation between video gaming and various aspects of thinking, memory, intelligence, and visual-spatial abilities. And the essay Impact of Moving Away from Home on Undergraduate Metacognitive Development explicitly connects life circumstances to the ability to monitor and control one's thinking. Together, the collection of essays are a further step towards understanding the process of sense making as children and young adults interact with their environment.