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1 online resource |
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Cover; Preface; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1 Embodied Cognitive Science; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Our brain controls our body; 1.3 Our body controls our brain; 1.4 Our body and our world shape our brain; 1.5 Our brain develops for a purpose; 1.6 Computational knowledge is necessary; 1.7 Book overview; Chapter 2 Cognitive Science is Interdisciplinary; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Philosophy; 2.2.1 Epistemology and its development; 2.2.2 Philosophy of mind; 2.2.3 Philosophy of language and forms of representation; 2.3 Biology; 2.3.1 Neurobiology; 2.3.2 Evolution. |
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2.4 Psychology2.4.1 Behaviorism; 2.4.2 Constructivism and developmental psychology; 2.4.3 The cognitive turn; 2.4.4 Memory; 2.5 Bringing the pieces together; 2.6 Exercises; Chapter 3 Cognition is Embodied; 3.1 Computers and intelligence; 3.2 What is intelligence anyway?; 3.2.1 Early conceptualizations of intelligence; 3.2.2 Further differentiations of intelligence; 3.3 Symbolic artificial intelligence and its limitations; 3.3.1 Symbolic problem solving; 3.3.2 Symbolic linguistic processing; 3.4 Hard challenges for symbolic processing systems; 3.4.1 Symbol grounding problem. |
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3.4.2 Frame problem3.4.3 Binding problem; 3.5 Neural networks; 3.6 Embodied intelligence; 3.6.1 Embodied biological processing; 3.6.2 Embodied artificial intelligence; 3.6.3 Embodied cognitive agents; 3.7 When have we reached artificial, human cognition?; 3.8 Exercises; Chapter 4 Cognitive Development and Evolution; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Ontogenetic development; 4.2.1 Prenatal development; 4.2.2 Cognitive development after birth: the first few years; 4.3 Phylogenetic development and evolution; 4.3.1 A brief history of evolution science; 4.3.2 Genetics in a nutshell. |
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4.3.3 Evolutionary mechanisms4.4 Evolutionary computation; 4.4.1 Basic components of evolutionary computation algorithms; 4.4.2 When do evolutionary algorithms work?; 4.5 What can we learn from evolution?; 4.6 Exercises; Chapter 5 Behavior is Reward-oriented; 5.1 Introduction and overview; 5.2 Reinforcement learning in psychology; 5.3 Reinforcement learning; 5.3.1 RL problem; 5.3.2 Temporal difference learning; 5.3.3 Speeding up temporal difference learning; 5.3.4 Behavioral strategies; 5.3.5 Actor-critic approaches; 5.4 Policy gradients; 5.4.1 Formalization of policy gradients. |
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5.4.2 Gradient estimation techniques5.4.3 A racing car example; 5.4.4 Conclusions and relations to cognition and behavior; 5.5 Exercises; Chapter 6 Behavioral Flexibility and Anticipatory Behavior; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Flexibility and adaptivity; 6.2.1 Niches and natural diversity; 6.2.2 Beyond behaviorism; 6.2.3 Redundancies and complements; 6.3 Sensorimotor learning and adaptation; 6.4 Anticipatory behavior; 6.4.1 Forward anticipatory behavior; 6.4.2 Inverse anticipatory behavior; 6.5 Motivations and curiosity; 6.5.1 Intrinsic reward; 6.5.2 Extrinsic reward and motivations. |
| Summary |
How is it that we can think highly abstract thoughts, seemingly fully detached from the actual, physical reality? This book offers an interdisciplinary introduction to embodied cognitive science, addressing the question of how the mind comes into being while actively interacting with and learning from the environment by means of the body. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Cognitive science.
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Philosophy of mind.
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Thought and thinking.
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thinking. |
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MEDICAL -- Physiology. |
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Human Anatomy & Physiology. |
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Cognitive science |
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Philosophy of mind |
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Thought and thinking |
| ISBN |
019106016X (electronic bk.) |
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9780191060168 (electronic bk.) |
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