a new book: Duality of the Mind

Announcing a new book published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. http://www.erlbaum.com/ D U A L I T Y O F T H E M I N D A Bottom-up Approach toward Cognition by Ron Sun Synthesizing situated cognition, reinforcement learning, and hybrid connectionist models, a cognitive architecture focused on situated involvement and interaction with the world is developed in this book. The architecture notably incorporates the distinction between implicit and explicit processes. The work described in the book demonstrates the cognitive validity of the architecture, by ways of capturing a wide range of human learning data. Computational properties of the architecture is explored with experiments that manipulate implicit and explicit processes to optimize performance in a range of domains. Philosophical implications of the approach, on situated cognition, intentionality, symbol grounding, and consciousness, are also explored in detail. In a nutshell, this book motivates and develops a framework for studying human cognition, based on an approach that is characterized by its focus on the dichotomy of, and the interaction between, implicit and explicit cognition. -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more details, go to http://www.cecs.missouri.edu/~rsun/book6-ann.html To order the book, go to https://www.erlbaum.com/shop/tek9.asp?pg=products&specific=0-8058-3880-5 =================================================================== Professor Ron Sun, Ph.D James C. Dowell Professor CECS Department, 201 EBW phone: (573) 884-7662 University of Missouri-Columbia fax: (573) 882-8318 Columbia, MO 65211-2060 email: rsun(a)cecs.missouri.edu http://www.cecs.missouri.edu/~rsun ===================================================================