Document Type

Article

Program

Anthropology (Pitzer)

Publication Date

1999

Keywords

Motivation (Psychology), Culture, Schemas (Psychology)

Abstract

Since the 1970s the cognitive sciences have offered multidisciplinary ways of understanding the mind and cognition. The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (MITECS) is a landmark, comprehensive reference work that represents the methodological and theoretical diversity of this changing field.

This particular work is one of 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.

Comments

Please note that this article is one entry in The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (MITECS), edited by Robert A. Wilson and Frank C. Keil. The newest edition of the encyclopedia can be found through MIT Press: http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/mit-encyclopedia-cognitive-sciences-mitecs-0. ISBN: 9780262731447

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© 1999 MIT, courtesy of MIT Press

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