Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 372 pages
- Published by: The MIT Press October 2, 1990
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0262600196
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0262600194
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Book Dimensions:
8.8 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
- Weighs: 1 pounds
Product Review
"
Consciousness and the Computational Mind is provocative, highly informed, and essential reading for anyone interested in a scientific understanding of the mind."
—
Science
Product Description
In
Consciousness and the Computational Mind, Ray Jackendoff probes one of the fundamental issues in cognitive psychology: How does our conscious experience come to be the way it is? In so doing, he develops an overview of the mental representations invoked by the language, visual, and musical faculties, and describes how they are used in perception, production, imagery, and thought. He then explores how these representations determine the character of conscious awareness, arriving at the "Intermediate Level Theory" of consciousness, an account strikingly different from and more empirically adequate than the many previous theories examined in the book.