C, R, Gallistel and A. P. King, Memory and the Computational Brain: Why Cognitive Science Will Transform Neuroscience, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. This is a rich and thought-provoking book. I cannot do it justice in a brief post so I apologize in advance for that. Roughly speaking, the book argues that (1) many …
(cross-posted at Philosophy Sucks!) I plan on writing a series of posts discussing various themes that came up in discussion at the online consciousness conference over the next few weeks. I have long been a type-type identity theorist. There was a time when I thought that I would write my …
I have been asked to write up a commentated bibliography on modularity for a new journal by OUP. It is not meant to be exhaustive; rather it should focus on the important articles and books and organize this in meaningful sections. Perhaps some of you will have comments and suggestions. …
Gualtiero is too modest to announce it here, so I’ll do it! Congratulations for your tenure, Gualtiero! Very well-deserved. Edouard
I have not been too good keeping up with the NYU Mind and Language Seminar like I had originally planned. Part of the problem was the Online Consciousness Conference (about which more later) the other part of the problem has been that I teach until 3:30 and the sessions start …
Find out at my most recent consciousness post, and figure out how to decode graphs like this:Hint: line density equals photoreceptor density, and top is bottom because images are inverted on the retina. If that doesn’t make sense, check out the long version. It’s part of my eight-million post series …
Rick Cooper (psychology, U London) is putting together an issue of Topics in Cognitive Science (a new journal by the Cognitive Science Society) on the fascinating topic of cognitive control. They are soliciting commentaries on the introductory paper plus five target articles, including a nice one by our Pete Mandik. …
