An Invitation to Cognitive Science

Stephen M. Kosslyn is Founding Dean and Chief Academic Officer of the Minerva Schools at KGI (the Keck Graduate Institute) and John Lindsley Professor of Psychology in Memory of William James, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He is the coauthor of Cognitive Psychology: Mind And Brain and the author of Image and Brain: The Resolution of the Imagery Debate (MIT Press). Daniel N. Osherson is at MIT. Martha J. Farah is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Natural Sciences in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she directs the Center for Neuroscience & Society. She has worked on many topics within neuroscience, including vision, prefrontal function, emotion, and development. In her three decades of research she has witnessed the advent of functional neuroimaging, the burgeoning of cognitive neuroscience, and its expansion into the study of social and affective processes. She is now focusing her attention on the ethical, legal and social implications of these developments. Melvyn A. Goodale is a university researcher in psychology at the University of Western Ontario. Fred Dretske is Senior Research Scholar in the Department of Philosophy, Duke University.

Preface, S.M. Kosslyn; intermediate-level vision, K. Nakayama et al; attention, H. Pashler; dissociable systems for recognition, M.J. Farah; visual identification, I. Biederman; vision and action, M.A. Goodale; eye movements, I. Kowler; visual mental imagery, S.M. Kosslyn; visual development, E.S. Spelke et al; meaningful perception, F. Dretske.