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Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: What Is Information Processing?

1.1 Formal Games

1.2 Form and Function

1.3 The Formalist’s Motto

1.4 Demonstrating the Formalist’s Motto

1.5 A Universal Machine

1.6 Why Is the Turing Machine Important?

1.7 The Modern Computer

1.8 Explaining How Computers Process Information

1.9 A Hierarchy of Levels

1.10 Explaining Human Cognition

1.11 Chapter Summary

Chapter 2: Inferring Cognitive Processes

2.1 Using Symbols

2.2 Partial Report and Iconic Memory

2.3 Primary Memory and Acoustic Confusions

2.4 Delaying Recall from Primary Memory

2.5 Primary Memory and Recoding

2.6 Example: Recoding Digits into Chunks

2.7 Functional Dissociations of Serial Position Curves

2.8 Rehearsal and the Primacy Effect

2.9 Sentence Verification and Secondary Memory

2.10 Associations, Verbal Learning, and Secondary Memory

2.11 Imagery and Secondary Memory

2.12 Inferring Structure, Process, and Control

2.13 How to Remember π to 100 Digits

2.14 Chapter Summary

Chapter 3: Using Functional Analysis to Explain Cognition

3.1 Competing Notions of Explanation

3.2 Functionalism, Hierarchies, and Functional Decomposition

3.3 Ryle’s Regress

3.4 Functional Analysis

3.5 The Architecture of Cognition

3.6 Functional Analysis of Colour Perception

3.7 The Cognitive Approach

3.8 Seeking Strong Equivalence

3.9 Relative Complexity Evidence

3.10 Error Evidence

3.11 Intermediate State Evidence

3.12 The Cognitive Impenetrability Criterion

3.13 Cognitive Psychology in Principle and in Practice

3.14 Chapter Summary

Chapter 4: Cognitive Architectures

4.1 The Variety of Cognitive Psychology

4.2 Serial and Parallel Processing

4.3 Data-Driven and Theory-Driven Processing

4.4 Automatic and Controlled Processing

4.5 Structures and Processes

4.6 Structure, Process, and Control

4.7 Nativism and Empiricism

4.8 Isotropic and Modular Processing

4.9 An Example Architecture

4.10 Chapter Summary

Chapter 5: Questioning Foundations

5.1 Questioning Foundational Assumptions

5.2 Do We Need the Computer Metaphor?

5.3 Does Cognition Require Rules?

5.4 Can Connectionist Networks Provide Cognitive Theories?

5.5 Do People Think?

5.6 Where Is the Mind?

5.7 Can Machines Think?

5.8 What Is the “Cognitive” in Cognitive Neuroscience?

5.9 Do Brains Think?

5.10 Which Topics Are Important to Cognitive Psychology?

5.11 What Is Cognitive Psychology?

References

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