A companion to cognitive science / edited by William Bechtel and George Graham ; advisory editors, David A. Balota ... [and others].

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Pt. I. The Life of Cognitive Science / William Bechtel, Adele Abrahamsen and George Graham -- Pt. II. Areas of Study in Cognitive Science. 1. Analogy / Dedre Gentner. 2. Animal cognition / Herbert L. Roitblat. 3. Attention / A. H. C. Van Der Heijden. 4. Brain mapping / Jennifer Mundale. 5. Cognitive anthropology / Charles W. Nuckolls. 6. Cognitive and linguistic development / Adele Abrahamsen. 7. Conceptual change / Nancy J. Nersessian. 8. Conceptual organization / Douglas Medin and Sandra R. Waxman. 9. Consciousness / Owen Flanagan. 10. Decision making / J. Frank Yates and Paul A. Estin. 11. Emotions / Paul E. Griffiths. 12. Imagery and spatial representation / Rita E. Anderson. 13. Language evolution and neuromechanisms / Terrence W. Deacon. 14. Language processing / Kathryn Bock and Susan M. Garnsey. 15. Linguistic theory / D. Terence Langendoen. 16. Machine learning / Paul Thagard. 17. Memory / Henry L. Roediger III and Lyn M. Goff.

18. Perception / Cees Van Leeuwen. 19. Perception: color / Austen Clark. 20. Problem solving / Kevin Dunbar. 21. Reasoning / Lance J. Rips. 22. Social cognition / Alan J. Lambert and Alison L. Chasteen. 23. Unconscious intelligence / Rhianon Allen and Arthur S. Reber. 24. Understanding texts / Art Graesser and Pam Tipping. 25. Word meaning / Barbara C. Malt -- Pt. III. Methodologies of Cognitive Science. 26. Artificial intelligence / Ron Sun. 27. Behavioral experimentation / Alexander Pollatsek and Keith Rayner. 28. Cognitive ethology / Marc Bekoff. 29. Deficits and pathologies / Christopher D. Frith. 30. Ethnomethodology / Barry Saferstein. 31. Functional analysis / Brian MacWhinney. 32. Neuroimaging / Randy L. Buckner and Steven E. Petersen. 33. Protocol analysis / K. Anders Ericsson. 34. Single neuron electrophysiology / B. E. Stein, M. T. Wallace and T. R. Stanford. 35. Structural analysis / Robert Frank -- Pt. IV. Stances in Cognitive Science.

36. Case-based reasoning / David B. Leake. 37. Cognitive linguistics / Michael Tomasello. 38. Connectionism, artificial life, and dynamical systems / Jeffrey L. Elman. 39. Embodied, situated, and distributed cognition / Andy Clark. 40. Mediated action / James V. Wertsch. 41. Neurobiological modeling / P. Read Montague and Peter Dayan. 42. Production systems / Christian D. Schunn and David Klahr -- Pt. V. Controversies in Cognitive Science. 43. The binding problem / Valerie Gray Hardcastle. 44. Heuristics and satisficing / Robert C. Richardson. 45. Innate knowledge / Barbara Landau. 46. Innateness and emergentism / Elizabeth Bates, Jeffrey L. Elman and Mark H. Johnson [and others]. 47. Intentionality / Gilbert Harman. 48. Levels of explanation and cognitive architectures / Robert N. McCauley. 49. Modularity / Irene Appelbaum. 50. Representation and computation / Robert S. Stufflebeam. 51. Representations / Dorrit Billman.

52. Rules / Terence Horgan and John Tienson. 53. Stage theories refuted / Donald G. MacKay -- Pt. VI. Cognitive Science in the Real World. 54. Education / John T. Bruer. 55. Ethics / Mark L. Johnson. 56. Everyday life environments / Alex Kirlik. 57. Institutions and economics / Douglass C. North. 58. Legal reasoning / Edwina L. Rissland. 59. Mental retardation / Norman W. Bray, Kevin D. Reilly and Lisa F. Huffman [and others]. 60. Science / William F. Brewer and Punyashloke Mishra -- Selective biographies of major contributors to cognitive science / William Bechtel and Tadeusz Zawidzki.