Understanding Cognitive Science

by Michael Robert William Dawson and Michael R.W. Dawson

Book Overview

This concise introduction to cognitive science provides undergraduate and graduate students with the theoretical foundations of classical and connectionist cognitive science to explain and teach the underlying unity of the field.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 063120895X
• ISBN13: 9780631208952
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.7" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Really good textbook

This is a really good introduction to cognitive science for upper year undergraduate, interdisciplinary audience. It's written by a psychologist who also has a very solid background in computer science and in philosophy. Perhaps for that reason, it's well-balanced, clearly organized, and full of interesting examples that can easily serve as spring-boards for seminar discussion. I'd probably supplement it with some articles. But it stands up nicely as the background text. I'd actually like to see an updated second edition (perhaps on better paper). But I would not hesitate to use this first edition in the classroom.