Publisher's Synopsis
Cognitive science is an important discipline, covering such diverse areas as artificial intelligence, computing, psychology, linguistics, philosophy of the mind, expert and information systems. This book answers some of the key questions relating to this emerging discipline, providing an integrated approach to cognitive science by highlighting its main concerns and methods, in the form of a clearly understood text written by selected contributors from key areas of the science.;The book should be of interest, then, to researchers of cognitive science and psychology, artificial intelligence, linguistics and computational linguistics, neuroscience and educational theory.