A Life in Cognition

This edited book offers a broad selection of interdisciplinary studies within cognitive science. The book illustrates and documents how cognitive science offers a unifying framework for the interaction of fields of study focusing on the human mind from linguistics and philosophy to psychology and the history of science. A selection of renowned contributors provides authoritative historical, theoretical and empirical perspectives on more than six decades of research with a special focus on the progress of cognitive science in Central Europe. Readers encounter a bird's eye view of geographical and linguistic diversity brought about by the cognitive revolution, as it is reflected in the writings of leading authors, many of whom are former students and collaborators of Csaba Pléh, a key figure of the cognitive turn in Central Europe, to whom this book is dedicated. The book appeals to students and researchers looking for the ways various approaches to the mind and the brain intersect.

Auteur

Gergely Csibra is a cognitive psychologist. His research focuses on various aspects of cognitive development within human infants, including action understanding, mental state attribution, receptive communication and social learning. He's also interested in episodic memory, object perception, symbol use, and many other topics within cognitive psychology.

Judit Gervain is a developmental psycholinguist and cognitive developmental neuroscientist working on early speech perception and language acquisition and their neural bases. She holds a PhD from SISSA, Trieste, Italy and is currently a senior researcher at the CNRS, Paris, France. She is the author of more than fifty peer-reviewed articles, published in leading journals (PNAS, Nature Communications) and about twenty book chapters. She currently holds an ERC Consolidator grant.

Kristóf Kovács is a cognitive psychologist. His research focuses on individual differences within cognitive abilities, bridging cognitive psychology and psychometrics. After completing his PhD at the University of Cambridge he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and the University of Amsterdam. Currently, he is senior research fellow at Eötvös Loránd University.

Contenu

Chapter 1. The Emergence of Cognitive Science in Central Europe: The Role of Csaba Pléh (Gergely Csibra, Judit Gervain, Kristóf Kovács).- Chapter 2. Theories of theories: On the history of theories of intuitive theories in psychology (Gergely Csibra & Johannes Mahr).- Chapter 3. Changes in the focus of developmental models: from social context to social cognition (Ildikó Király).- Chapter 4. Hume's faculty psychology (Tamás Demeter).- Chapter 5. Forever Jung (Kristóf Nyíri).- Chapter 6. Semantic systems after 30 years (György Kampis).- Chapter 7. Structured thought and behavior (Vilmos Csányi).-Chapter 8. Individual Differences, the abandoned child of Cognitive Psychology has grown up and revisits the family (Kristóf Kovács).- Chapter 9. Psychology in 20th century Hungary (Gábor Zemplén).-Chapter 10. Cognitive Science Hungary and Professor Pléh (Stevan Harnad).- Chapter 11. Pléh, the historian, and me (Zsuzsa Káldy).- Chapter 12. The subject matter of psychology (Katalin Farkas).-Chapter 13. Psychology meets evolutionary theory (Tamás Bereczkei).- Chapter 14. Pléh and Darwin (Bence Nánay).- Chapter 15. Talk therapy: changes in psychoanalytic theory and its relationship to theories of development (György Gergely).- Chapter 16. Representing multiple possibilities in infancy (Ágnes Kovács & Erno Téglás).- Chapter 17. Associations between social network structure and personality disorder traits (Zsolt Unoka - Eszter Berán).- Chapter 18. Competitive neurocognitive networks underlying learning and memory (Dezso Németh).- Chapter 19. The role of unattended background information in real and false memories (Mihály Racsmány).- Chapter 20 The never-ending story of the magnificent 7-repeat allele (Anna Székely).- Chapter 25. The acquisition of Hungarian morphology (Judit Gervain).- Chapter 26. The interface of psychology and second language acquisition (Zoltán Dörnyei).- Chapter 27. On another nonfinite construction (István Kenesei).- Chapter 28. On Prepositions in Chinese - Diachronic and Typological Perspectives (Alain Peyraube & Lin Xiao).- Chapter 29. Psycholinguistic approach to syntax processing on the example of RC attachment preference (Melita Kovacevic).- Chapter 30. Speaking metaphorically: What the brain is trying to tell us? (Bálint Forgács).- Chapter 31. An Exploratory Study of Corpora for National Differences in Personality Terms (Leslie Barratt & Will Barratt).