A widely discussed hypothesis in neuroscience is that transiently active ensembles of
neurons, known as" cell assemblies," underlie numerous operations of the brain, from …

The goal of this study is to reintegrate the theory of generative grammar into the cognitive
sciences. Generative grammar was right to focus on the child's acquisition of language as its …

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Acknowledgments--Introduction: Setting the Stage. The Paradox of Continuity versus …

In this paper, we argue for a theoretical separation of the free-energy principle from
Helmholtzian accounts of the predictive brain. The free-energy principle is a theoretical …

A proposal that extends the enactive approach developed in cognitive science and
philosophy of mind to issues in affective science. In The Feeling Body, Giovanna Colombetti …

A novel cognitive theory of semantics that proposes that the meanings of words can be
described in terms of geometric structures. In The Geometry of Meaning, Peter Gärdenfors …

This paper briefly introduces radical embodied cognitive science (RECS) and places it in
historical perspective. Radical embodied cognitive science is an interdisciplinary approach …

Classical theories of sensory processing view the brain as a passive, stimulus-driven device.
By contrast, more recent approaches emphasize the constructive nature of perception …

Within cognitive science, two approaches currently dominate the problem of modeling
representations. The symbolic approach views cognition as computation involving symbolic …

Describes patterns of general communication development and of English specificity,
emphasizing individual patterns. This edition devotes more attention to individual …