Speaking of evolutionary theory, I’m going to propose a “new-ish” course dealing with evolution and the mind. The goal is to cover some topics in psychology/neuroscience from an evolutionary perspective. The problem is to find a good title. Here are some options: Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience Evolutionary Psychology Minds, Brains, and …
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I finally updated most of my website after over a year of neglect. With help from Jim Virtel, we added a whole bunch of new links to my list of resources for students, such as information on how to study, apply to grad school, publish, and apply for jobs. Let me …
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 …
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. …
Call for Papers
Journal of Cognitive Science
http://cogsci.snu.ac.kr/jcs.
This is an interdisciplinary, international, peer reviewed journal, published by the Institute for Cognitive Science at Seoul National University. The editor, Chungmin Lee, is in the process of revamping the journal, gaining distribution as part of the Springer network and listing in various databases. I recently agreed to serve as their philosophy editor, so philosophy papers are definitely welcome! More information below the fold.
Here. Check out the prominence given to our Adam Shriver, including a link to his NY Times op-ed piece!!
