"Throughout history, different fields of inquiry have attempted to understand the great mystery of mind and answer questions like: What is mind? How does it operate? What is consciousness? Only recently have these efforts in traditional and cutting edge disciplines become more united in their focus. Cognitive Science: An Introduction to the Study of Mind draws this work together, introducing the novice reader to what great thinkers think about thought. Unlike most texts, the authors use a theoretical, rather than empirical, approach to examine the most important theories of mind from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Experiments are primarily discussed to illustrate the specific characteristics of a model."--Jacket
Includes bibliographical references (pages 483-503) and indexes