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EDITORS Donald E. Broadbent James L. Mcgaugh Nicholas J. Mackintosh Michael I …

This chapter was born of an ill-defined but definite feeling that we, as cognitive
psychologists, do not really understand our concepts of representation. We propose them …

" Our thoughts are meaningful. We think about things in the outside world; how can that be
so? This is one of the deepest questions in contemporary philosophy. Ever since …

The notion of a “mental representation” is, arguably, in the first instance a theoretical
construct of cognitive science. As such, it is a basic concept of the Computational Theory of …

The possible ways that information can be represented mentally have been discussed often
over the past thousand years. However, this issue could not be addressed rigorously until …

Language may be thought of as a kind of representational stimulation. The general issue of
whether language actually functions representa tional, and if so, how this is accomplished is …

As embodied theories of cognition are increasingly formalized and tested, care must be
taken to make informed assumptions regarding the nature of concepts and representations …

We should be careful to distinguish two problems about mental representation. The first-the
Problem of Representations (pluraO-is a theoretical problem in empirical science. Although …

In their efforts to provide a naturalistic account of mental representation, both cognitive
researchers and philosophers have failed to properly address an important distinction …

The dual coding theoretical (DCT) approach to the mental lexicon differs radically from
standard approaches to the concept in linguistics and psychology. The differences are …