The complex mind
By: edited by David McFarland, Keith Stenning, Maggie McGonigle
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780230247574
Subjects: Comparative Psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body; Artificial intelligence; PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / General
Description: "Combining the study of animal minds, artificial minds, and human evolution, this book examine the advances made by comparative psychologists in explaining the intelligent behavior of primates, the design of artificial autonomous systems, and the cognitive products of language evolution"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Preface; title: Acknowledgements; title: Notes on Contributors; title: PART I: COMPLEXITY IN ANIMAL MINDS; title: Introduction: M.McGonigle-Chalmers; title: Relational and Absolute Discrimination Learning by Squirrel Monkeys: Establishing a Common Ground with Human Cognition; B.T.Jones; title: Serial List Retention by Non-Human Primates: Complexity and Cognitive Continuity; F.R.Treichler; title: The Use of Spatial Structure in Working Memory: A Comparative Standpoint; C.De Lillo; title: The Emergence of Linear Sequencing in Children: A Continuity Account and a Formal Model; M.McGonigle-Chalmers & I.Kusel; title: Sensitivity to Quantity: What Counts Across Species?; S.T.Boysen & A.M.Yocom; title: PART II: COMPLEXITY IN ROBOTS; title: Editorial Introduction; D.McFarland; title: Towards Cognitive Robotics: Robotics, Biology and Developmental Psychology; M.Lee, U.Nehmzow & M.Rodriguez; title: Structuring Intelligence: The Role of Hierarchy, Modularity and Learning in Generating Intelligent Behaviour; J.J.Bryson; title: Epistemology, Access, and Computational Models; G.Luger; title: Reasoning About Representations in Autonomous Systems: What P'Olya and Lakatos Have To Say; A.Bundy; title: PART III: LANGUAGE, EVOLUTION AND THE COMPLEX MIND; title: Editorial Introduction; K.Stenning; title: How to Qualify for a Cognitive Upgrade: Executive Control, Glass Ceilings, and the Limits of Simian Success; A.Clark; title: Private Codes and Public Structures; C.Allen; title: The Emergence of Complex Language; W.Hinzen; title: Language Evolution: Enlarging the Picture; K.Stenning&M.Van Lambalgen; title: Epilogue: Reminiscences of Brendan McGonigle; title: Index.