文档介绍：THE MIT
COMPUTATIONAL
INTELLIGENCE ENCYCLOPEDIA
CULTURE, OF THE
COGNITION,
AND
EVOLUTION COGNITIVE
SCIENCES
LINGUISTICS
AND
LANGUAGE
NEUROSCIENCES
PHILOSOPHY
EDITED BY
PSYCHOLOGY
ROBERT A. WILSON
AND
FRANK C. KEIL
The MIT Encyclopedia
of the Cognitive Sciences
The MIT Encyclopedia
of the Cognitive Sciences
EDITED BY
Robert A. Wilson and
Frank C. Keil
A Bradford Book
The MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England
1999 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The MIT encyclopedia of the cognitive sciences / edited by Robert A.
Wilson, Frank C. Keil.
p. cm.
“A Bradford book.”
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-262-73124-X (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Cognitive science—Encyclopedias I. Wilson, Robert A.
(Robert Andrew) II. Keil, Frank C., 1952–.
1999
153’.03—dc21 99-11115
CIP
To the memory of Henry Bradford Stanton ( “Harry the hat”), 1921–1997, and to his
wife Betty upon her retirement, after twenty-one years with Bradford Books. Harry and
Betty were its cofounders and a major force in their own right in the flowering and
cross-fertilization of the interdisciplinary cognitive sciences.
Contents
List of Entries ix
Preface xiii
Philosophy, Robert A. Wilson xv
Psychology, Keith J. Holyoak xxxix
Neurosciences, Thomas D. Albright and Helen J. Neville li
Computational Intelligence, Michael I. Jordan and Stuart Russell lxxiii
Linguistics and Language, Gennaro Chierchia xci
Culture, Cognition, and Evolution, Dan Sperber and Lawrence Hirschfeld cxi
The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences 1
List of Contributors 901
Name Index 913
Subject Index 933
List of Ent