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The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (MITECS)
Bradford Books The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., (августа 1999)
Аннотация
The state-of-the-art knowledge about knowledge is contained within the <I>MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences</I>. Its 471 comprehensive entries cover topics as diverse as "Hemispheric Specialization," "Epiphenomenalism," and Älgorithms" in 1,000 to 1,500 words each, thoroughly cross-indexed and extensively referenced to launch further research. A few biographical entries are also included, highlighting such giants as Alan Turing and Santiago Ramón y Cajal. The editors selected their contributors well, assigning "Neurobiology of Consciousness" to Christof Koch and Francis Crick, for example. Even better, six longer essays introduce the <I>Encyclopedia</I>, each providing an overview of one of the six disciplines that overlap to form cognitive science: computational intelligence; culture, cognition, and evolution; linguistics and language; neurosciences; philosophy; and psychology. These are enormously helpful to the researcher, as they are general enough to allow easy entry but still meaty enough to be useful themselves and as pointers to specific entries. The <I>MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences</I>, while not a casual entry into the field, is an essential addition to the reference shelf for anyone seriously interested in AI, consciousness, or other aspects of natural and artificial brains. <I>--Rob Lightner</I> This is a fully-searchable, complete text of the <i>MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (MITECS)</i> on a dual-platform CD-ROM.<br /> <br /> Since the 1970s the cognitive sciences have offered multidisciplinary ways of understanding the mind and cognition. <i>The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences</i> (MITECS) is a landmark, comprehensive reference work that represents the methodological and theoretical diversity of this changing field.<br /> <br /> At the core of the encyclopedia are 471 concise entries, from Acquisition and Adaptationism to Wundt and X-bar Theory. Each article, written by a leading researcher in the field, provides an accessible introduction to an important concept in the cognitive sciences, as well as references or further readings. Six extended essays, which collectively serve as a roadmap to the articles, provide overviews of each of six major areas of cognitive science: Philosophy; Psychology; Neurosciences; Computational Intelligence; Linguistics and Language; and Culture, Cognition, and Evolution. For both students and researchers, MITECS will be an indispensable guide to the current state of the cognitive sciences.<br /> <br /> System requirements: Compatible with Windows 95, Windows NT (16MB of RAM available to Acrobat Reader; 10MB hard-disk space); Windows 3.1 and 3.11 for Workgroups (12MB hard-disk space); Macintosh and Power Macintosh (8MB of RAM available to Acrobat Reader, Apple System Software version 7.1.2 or later, and 12.5MB hard-disk space).
