Knowledge and Representation

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Mental representations are among the most mysterious entities involved in cognition. How is the brain’s model of the world formed, how is it used, how is it corrected, how essential is it to our knowledge of the world? Psychologists have been trying to comprehend the nature of these internal mechanisms by models of their own, which fall into three main categories: computational, biological, and constructivist. But whether these explanations draw on the experience of computer programming for artificial intelligence, or on an analysis of the interrelations between neurons in the brain, or on some mechanical or abstract analogy, the purpose is always to find the metaphor which is most useful in scientific and predictive terms.All these approaches are represented in Knowledge and Representation (originally published in 1982), which is designed to convey the full richness and variety of research at the time and theorizing in this area of cognitive psychology.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-09-01
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Revivals
Antal sidor:228
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781041382041

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Beatrice de Gelder is Professor in the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience at Maastricht University’s Faculty of Neuroscience and Psychology. Her research interests include behavioral and neural emotion processing from facial and bodily expressions, multisensory perception and interaction between auditory and visual processes, and nonconscious perception in neurological patients.

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Introduction 1. On Fodor on cognitive development 2. Imitation, knowledge and representation 3. On the representations of representations and on what happens to them 4. Modifications in children’s representational systems and levels of accessing knowledge 5. Discursive representation in infancy 6. The early stages of communicative and linguistic development: underlying processes 7. The problem of imagery and spatial development in the blind 8. Spatial cognition: the mental representation of objects and forms 9. A note on representationalism 10. Conversation and intelligence 11. Depths of knowledge 12. Attributing knowledge to young children 13. The nature and development of the kinetic representational system