Cognitive Science Meets Autonomous Mental Development

Cognitive Science Meets Autonomous Mental Development

The 7th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2008) took place at the Asilomar Conference Grounds in Monterrey, CA, from August 9 to 12, 2008. The Asilomar Conference Ground has been a place for some well-known conferences in U.S. history, with its natural beach surroundings dotted with rustic buildings with spacious rooms and other facilities. This year’s conference h...

Cognitive Science Meets Psychoanalysis

the contemporary intellectual world is that between cognitive science and cultural theory. Cognitive scientists are committed to the idea that we can follow the conceptions of the mind to their zero level of the brain. As a result, speculation about our conceptions on their own terms will always mislead us into false problems. These are the problems that preoccupy cultural theorists. For the la...

Syndetic Modelling: Computer Science Meets Cognitive Psychology

This paper discusses an approach to combining user and system models within a common mathematical framework, to yield an integrated view of human-system interaction. Aspects of systems that affect usability can be described and reasoned about in terms of the conjoint behaviour of user and computer. The paper outlines the basic ideas behind the approach through a case study. The paper then revie...

Dynamic Semantics Meets Cognitive and Social Science

Mental Models in Cognitive Science

If cognitive science does not exist then it is necessary to invent it. That slogan accommodates any reasonable attitude about the subject. One attitude-an optimistic one-is that cognitive science already exists and is alive and flourishing in academe: we have all in our different ways been doing it for years. The gentleman in Moliere’s play rejoiced to discover that he had been speaking prose f...