Research Catalog

Title

Understanding representation in the cognitive sciences : does representation need reality? / edited by Alexander Riegler, Markus Peschl, and Astrid von Stein.

Publication

New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, [1999], ©1999.

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Additional Authors

• Riegler, Alexander.
• Peschl, Markus F.
• Stein, Astrid von.

Description

307 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Subject

• Mental representation > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Does Representation Need Reality? / Markus F. Peschl and Alexander Riegler -- The Connectionist Route to Embodiment and Dynamicism / Georg Dorffner -- The Ontological Status of Representations / Matthias Scheutz -- Empirical and Metaphysical Anti-Representationalism / Anthony Chemero -- Representation in Cognitive Neuroscience / Alfredo Pereira, Jr. -- Cognition without Representation? / Daniel D. Hutto -- On Computing Systems and Their Environment / Georg Schwarz -- Representation and Cognitive Explanation / William S. Robinson -- When Coffee Cups Are Like Old Elephants, or Why Representation Modules Don't Make Sense / Robert M. French -- The Recommendation Architecture: Relating Cognition to Physiology / L. Andrew Coward -- Neurodynamics and the Revival of Associationism in Cognitive Science / Pim Haselager -- The Dynamic Manifestation of Cognitive Structures in the Cerebral Cortex / Steven L. Bressler --
• Response Selectivity, Neuron Doctrine, and Mach's Principle in Perception / Ken Mogi -- Mental Representations: A Computational-Neuroscience Scheme / Marius Usher and Ernst Niebur -- Sketchpads In and Beyond the Brain / Erich Harth -- Inductive Learning with External Representations / Mark Wexler -- Does the Brain Represent the World? Evidence Against the Mapping Assumption / Astrid von Stein -- Perception Through Anticipation. A Behaviour-Based Approach to Visual Perception / Ralf Moller -- Rethinking Grounding / Tom Ziemke -- Reality: A Prerequisite to Meaningful Representation / N. Chandler, V. Balendran and L. Evett / [et al.] -- Explorations in Synthetic Pragmatics / Christian Balkenius and Simon Winter -- Does Semantics Need Reality? / Peter Gardenfors -- Empiricism and Social Reality: Can Cognitive Science Be Socialized? / J. Richard Eiser -- Habitus and Animats / Tom Routen --
• Processing Concepts and Scenarios: Electrophysiological Findings on Language Representation / S. Weiss, H. M. Muller and P. Rappelsberger -- Constructivist Consequences: Translation and Reality / Hanna Risku -- The Observer in the Brain / Wolf Singer -- Reality and Representation. Qualia, Computers, and the "Explanatory Gap" / Michael Pauen -- Can a Constructivist Distinguish between Experience and Representation? / Annika Wallin -- How Animals Handle Reality - The Adaptive Aspect of Representation / Sverre Sjolander -- Piaget's Legacy: Cognition as Adaptive Activity / Ernst von Glasersfeld -- Discussions of Representation and Constructivism.

ISBN

0306462869

LCCN

99086377

OCLC

ocm43312314

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries