Adventures in Cognitive Science 9: Final Post and Overview
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This is my last post in this series. It was quite an interesting experience for me to write about the field I'm studying in a manner that everyone can understand it (hopefully I was successful doing so). I also have to add that I barely scratched the surface of cognitive science and a lot of topics were missing (ironically those topics that I'm more familiar with like computational modelling, artificial intelligence and philosophical issues surrounding those topics). I hope you had fun reading about cognitive science and you learned a bit, I surely learned a lot and maybe I'll do something like this again in the future.
Here's an overview about the articles I wrote and a short summary:
| Title | Summary |
|---|---|
| Introduction | A little introduction into cognitive science and what is this “cognition”, I'm talking about. |
| What Role the Body plays in Cognition | What is “embodiment” and how is the body related to cognition. |
| What's that Thing called Embodiment? | More about embodiment, especially what kind of body can be embodied. |
| Mirror Neurons – Towards understanding Others | What are mirror neurons and why are they so interesting for cognition. |
| How is Perception linked with Action? | Here I present the “common coding theory”, a theory that suggest that actions and perceptions are much closer linked that initially thought. |
| How the Brain simulates Actions | Here I present the “neural simulation theory”, an approach to linking actions with perceptions from neuroscience. |
| How Language interferes with Actions | Here I present the “action-sentence compatibility effect (ACE)”, an interesting effect that shows how language can influence actions. |
| Language, Simulations and their Role in Cognition | Here I present the “language and situated simulation (LASS) theory”, a theory about how language and simulations lead to the representation of knowledge. |
| Language and Concepts | Here I present the “theory of Lexical Concepts and Cognitive Models (LCCM)”, a theory about the influence of language on the representation of concepts. |
it's interesting that you're studying this. as an outsider i dunno anything about this subject, except i hear physicists saying we don't even know what consciousness is.
The funny thing about studying this is, that now, after two years and basically just missing my master thesis, I still feel like I barely scratched the surface of the subject.
Yeah, even though there were a lot of breakthroughs in the last century (especially understanding how the brain works), but this fundamental question about consciousness is still open.
yes i guess that's the case. it's cool stuff. thanks for sharing.
Thanks for all the summaries - I think they are brilliantly written and give nice first overviews of each of the topics. I loved them!
Thank you very much, reading feedback like this is really encouraging :)
Very good - so this means there's more on cognition that we can expect from you :)
Well, at least not for now :)