Experienced Cognition

TRAMA

This volume brings together cognitive scientific research on consciousness and on cognitive skills in a carefully-worked out theory of "experienced cognition." For researchers and graduate students in all branches of cognitive science.

NOTE EDITORE

This volume presents a theoretical framework for understanding consciousness and learning. Drawing on work in cognitive psychology and philosophy, this framework begins with the observation that to be conscious is literally to have a point of view. From this starting point, the book develops a descriptive scheme that allows perceptual, symbolic, and emotional awareness to be discussed in common theoretical terms, compatible with a computational view of the mind. A central theme is our experience of ourselves as agents, consciously controlling activities situated in environments. In contrast to previous theories of consciousness, the experienced cognition framework emphasizes the changes in conscious control as individuals acquire skills. The book is divided into four parts. The first introduces the central themes and places them in the context of information-processing theory and empirical research on cognitive skill. The second develops the theoretical framework, emphasizing the unity of perceptual, symbolic, and emotional awareness and the relation of conscious to nonconscious processes. The third applies the experienced cognition framework to a variety of topics in cognitive psychology, including working memory, problem solving, and reasoning. It also includes discussions of everyday action, skill, and expertise, focusing on changes in conscious control with increasing fluency. The last concludes the book by evaluating the recent debate on the "cognitive unconscious" and implicit cognition from the perspective of experienced cognition, and considering the prospects for a cognitive psychology focused on persons. This book addresses many of the issues raised in philosophical treatments of consciousness from the point of view of empirical cognitive psychology. For example, the structure of conscious mental states is addressed by considering how to describe them in terms of variables suitable for information-processing theory. Understanding conscious states in this way also provides a basis for developing empirical hypotheses, for example, about the relation of emotion and cognition, about the apparent "mindlessness" of skilled activity, and about the nature and role of goals in guiding activity. Criticisms of the computational view of mind are addressed by showing that the role of first-person perspectives in cognition can be described and investigated in theoretical terms compatible with a broadly-conceived information-processing theory of cognition.

SOMMARIO

Contents: Preface. Part I: Experienced Cognition: Consciousness and Cognitive Skill. Experienced Cognition and the Cospecification Hypothesis. Consciousness and the Information Processing Framework. Phenomena of Cognitive Skill. Part II: The Structure of Consciousness and the Architecture of the Mind. Perceptual and Enactive Awareness. Symbolic and Representational Awareness. Emotion, Bodily Awareness, and the Unity of Consciousness. Awareness and Nonconscious Information Systems. Part III: Consciousness and Skilled Cognitive Activity. Working Memory: Private Speech and Other Performatory Vehicles of Thought. Controlling Cognitive Activity: Goals and Goal Structures. Causal Thinking and Problem Solving. Belief and Reasoning. Expertise, Skill, and Everyday Action. Practice and Conscious Control of Cognitive Activity. Part IV: Implications. Implicit Cognition and Automaticity: A Perspective on the "Cognitive Unconscious." Toward a Cognitive Psychology of Persons.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780805817324
• Dimensioni: 9 x 6 in Ø 1.75 lb
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pagine Arabe: 368