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February 1986
6 x 9, 320 pp.
$34.00/£25.95 (PAPER)
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0-262-66058-X
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978-0-262-66058-7

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Computation and Cognition
Toward a Foundation for Cognitive Science
Zenon W. Pylyshyn

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This systematic investigation of computation and mental phenomena by a noted psychologist and computer scientist argues that cognition is a form of computation, that the semantic contents of mental states are encoded in the same general way as computer representations are encoded. It is a rich and sustained investigation of the assumptions underlying the directions cognitive science research is taking.

About the Author

Zenon W. Pylyshyn is Board of Governors Professor of Cognitive Science at Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science. He is the author of Seeing and Visualizing: It's Not what You Think (2003) and Computation and Cognition: Toward a Foundation for Cognitive Science (1984), both published by The MIT Press, as well as over a hundred scientific papers on perception, attention, and the computational theory of mind.


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"Required reading for every serious student of the field."
The Times Higher Education Supplement



Endorsements

"Pylyshyn's book is an exceptionally penetrating and useful analysis of the logical underpinnings of cognitive science, with careful treatments of the intentional, functional, and computational strands of cognitivism and their interrelations."
- Steven Pinker, MIT





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