Cognitive Science: An Introduction to the Study of Mind

Jay Friedenberg, Gordon Silverman

California, 2006 - Psychology - 531 pages

This landmark text introduces the novice reader to what great thinkers think about thought. Unlike most texts, authors Jay Friedenberg and Gordon Silverman use a theoretical, rather than empirical, approach to examine the most important theories of mind from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. While experiments are discussed, they are used primarily to illustrate the specific characteristics of a model.

About the author

Jay Friedenberg is Associate Chair and Associate Professor of the Psychology Department at Manhattan College, where he directs the Cognitive Science program. He obtained his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology in 1995 at the University of Virginia . His academic interests are in the areas of vision and philosophy of mind. He teaches courses in introductory and physiological psychology, sensation and perception, and research methods. Dr. Friedenberg has an active research program, investigating the visual estimation of center of mass. He has published articles on symmetry detection and face perception. Dr. Friedenberg is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, The Psychonomic Society, Phi Beta Kappa, and Sigma Xi. He is a yoga instructor and lives in Riverdale New York with a fat cat called Mimi.

Gordon Silverman is Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Manhattan College, where he has taught since 1991. He holds degrees from Columbia University and Polytechnic University (Ph.D. in System Science). He has close to 40 years of industrial, research, and teaching experience and is particularly interested in the engineering applications of computers with special emphasis on instrumentation, data acquisition, and biomedicine. In addition to numerous research papers, he recently published his fourth book.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Cognitive Science: An Introduction to the Study of Mind
• Authors: Jay Friedenberg, Gordon Silverman
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: California, 2006
• ISBN: 1412925681, 9781412925686
• Length: 531 pages
• Subjects: Psychology / Cognitive Psychology