Foundations of Cognitive Psychology: Preface - Preface

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Preface Daniel J. Levitin What Is Cognition? Cognition encompasses the scientific study of the human mind and how it processes i ...

gon, Stanford University, and the University of California at Berkeley. When I took cognition at MIT, there were only two textbo ...

The particular readings included here owe their evolution to a course I taught at the University of California at Berkeley in th ...

versity level. The order of the readings could certainly be varied without loss of coherence, although I think that the first fe ...

parti Foundations—Philosophical Basis, The Mind/Body Problem ...

Chapter 1 Visual Awareness Stephen E. Palmer 1.1 Philosophical Foundations The first wor kon virtually all scientific problems w ...

has a well-defined position, occupies a particular volume, has a definite shape, and has a specific mass. Conscious experiences, ...

The situation is perhaps best understood by analogy to the emergent property of being alive. Ordinary matter manifests this prop ...

Idealism Not all philosophical positions on the mind-body problem are dual- istic. The opposing view ismonism: the idea that the ...

The other materialist position, calledeliminative materialism,positsthatat least some of our current concepts concerning mental ...

objectivity means that, given a description of what was done in a partic- ular experiment, any scientist could repeat it and obt ...

Perhaps John fails to eat because his hands are temporarily paralyzed, because he has been influenced by a hypnotic suggestion, ...

suppose that they were alive (even though the basis of their life was not DNA, but some functionally similar self-replicating mo ...

have been able to agree. This relation, calledsupervenience, is that any difference in conscious events requires some correspond ...

worms because their behavior is less obviously analogous to our own, but many people firmly believe that their behavior indicate ...

literal form, the inversion refers to reversing the mapping between color expe- riences and the physical spectrum of wavelengths ...

red-green reversal, in which my color space is the same as yours except for re- flection about the blue-yellow plane, thus rever ...

These color transformation arguments are telling criticisms against the com- pleteness of any definition of conscious experience ...

phenomenological position with what it is like tobesome person, creature, or machine in a given situation. In the case of color ...