A Life in Cognition (eBook)

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.

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.