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Brain Wars
How does the mind work? And why is that so important?
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1957: The birth of cognitive science
Syntactic structures
The Perceptron — A Perceiving and Recognizing Automaton
The debates
Chomsky vs. Skinner
Minsky vs. Rosenblatt
Pinker and Prince vs. Rumelhart and McClelland
Smolensky vs. Fodor and Pylyshyn
Lakoff vs. Pinker
Bates vs. Pinker
Frazier vs. Tanenhaus
Prince vs. Smolensky
Carey vs. McClelland
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Women in cognitive science
Peace in Our Time? Integrative Cognitive Science
Impact of cognitive science
Fundamentals
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