The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences
edited by Robert A. Wilson and Frank Keil
Since the 1970s the cognitive sciences have offered multidisciplinary ways
of understanding the mind and cognition. The MIT Encyclopedia of the
Cognitive Sciences (MITECS) is a landmark, comprehensive reference work
that represents the methodological and theoretical diversity of this
changing field.
At the core of the encyclopedia are 471 concise entries, from Acquisition
and Adaptationism to Wundt and X-bar Theory. Each article, written by a
leading researcher in the field, provides an accessible introduction to an
important concept in the cognitive sciences, as well as references or
further readings. Six extended essays, which collectively serve as a
roadmap to the articles, provide overviews of each of six major areas of
cognitive science: Philosophy; Psychology; Neurosciences; Computational
Intelligence; Linguistics and Language; and Culture, Cognition, and
Evolution.
Robert A. Wilson is Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and a member of the Cognitive
Science Group at the university's Beckman Institute. Frank Keil is
Professor of Psychology at Yale University.
8 1/2 x 11, 1312 pp., 100 illus., cloth ISBN 0-262-23200-6
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