What is Cognitive Science?

Preface vii

Acknowledgements ix

1 What’s in your mind? 1
Zenon W. Pylyshyn

2 Explaining the infant’s object concept: Beyond the perception/cognition dichotomy 26
Brian J. Scholl and Alan M. Leslie

3 Rethinking rationality: From bleak implications to Darwinian modules 74
Richard Samuels, Stephen Stich, and Patrice D. Tremoulet

4 New foundations for perception 121
Michael Leyton

5 Object representation and recognition 172
Sven J. Dickinson

6 Does vision work? Towards a semantics of perception 208
Jacob Feldman

7 The brain as a hypothesis-constructing-and-testing agent 230
Thomas V. Papathomas

8 What movements of the eye tell us about the mind 248
Eileen Kowler

9 Visual dilemmas: Competition between eyes and between percepts in binocular rivalry 263
Thomas V. Papathomas, Ilona Kovacs, Akos Feher, and Bela Julesz

10 Linguistic and cognitive explanation in optimality theory 295
Bruce Tesar, Jane Grimshaw, and Alan Prince

11 Impossible words? 327
Jerry Fodor and Ernest Lepore

12 Bridging the symbolic-connectionist gap in language comprehension 336
Suzanne Stevenson

13 Cognitive and neural aspects of language acquisitions 356
Karin Stromswold

14 Connectionist neuroscience: representational and learning issues for neuroscience 401
Stephen Jose Hanson

Index 429