Cognitive science

Not to be confused with any of the following, unless it is in the end identical to one or more of them: Analogy and Metaphor; Artificial Intelligence; Noam Chomsky; Collective Cognition; Emotion; Evolutionary Psychology; Linguistics Machine Learning, Statistical Inference and Induction; Neural Nets and Connectionism; Neuropsychology; Neuroscience; Philosophy of Mind; "Pre-Cognitivism"; Scientific Thinking; Herbert Simon; Social Neuroscience; Thought and Society; L. S. Vygotsky

Noam Chomsky, "A Review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior," Language 35 (1959): 26--58 [online]
Denise D. Cummins, The Other Side of Psychology: How Experimental Psychologists Find Out About the Way We Think and Act [Of course, cognitive science is more than just cognitive psychology, and experimental psychology is more than just cognitive psychology.]
Stanislas Dehane, The Number Sense
Daniel Dennett writes, among other things, extensively about the philosophical implications of cognitive science, in the process explaining a lot of it, and defending the general approach of orthodox cognitivists.
K. Anders Ericsson, Ralf Th. Krampe and Clemens Tesch-Romer, "The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance", Psychological Review 100 (1993): 363--406
Marcello Frixione, "Tractable Competence", Minds and Machines 11 (2001): 379--397 [Cognitive systems do not, in fact, routinely solve intractable problems, so theories which postulate that they do are bad. Calling them "competence" theories is no excuse.]
Ronald N. Giere, Explaining Science: A Cognitive Approach
Edwin Hutchins, Cognition in the Wild [Actually, I have mixed feelings about the book, but I am, if I may say so, very fond of my review of it: Naval Collective Intelligence.]
Philip N. Johnson-Laird, The Computer and the Mind
Justin Leiber, Invitation to Cognitive Science
A. R. Luria, Cognitive Development: Its Cultural and Social Foundations [Comments]
Gary F. Marcus, The Algebraic Mind: Integrating Connectionism and Cognitive Science
Miller, Galanter and Pribam, Plans and the Structure of Behavior
Donald Norman, The Psychology of Everyday Things [Review: Fools Are so Ingenious]
Heinz Pagels, The Dreams of Reason [especially the chapters "Waiting for the Messiah" and "The Man Who Mistook His Brain for His Mind."]
Stephen Pinker
- The Language Instinct [or, Chomsky Without Tears]
- How the Mind Works [Review: Seeing the Computational Forest for the Cultural Trees]
Sara J. Shettleworth, Cognition, Evolution, and Behavior
Herbert Simon, The Sciences of the Artificial [and many, many other works]
Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson, Relevance: Cognition and Communication
Alonso H. Vera and Herbert A. Simon, "Situated Action: A Symbolic Interpretation," Cognitive Science 17 (1993): 7--48
Rhiannon Weaver, "Parameters, Predictions, and Evidence in Computational Modeling: A Statistical View Informed by ACT-R", Cognitive Science 32 (2008): 1349--1375 [A really great paper on using modern statistical methods to connect sophisticated cognitive models to data. I am very proud that Weaver is from the CMU stats. department, though she's not my student.]
Wilson and Keil (eds.), The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences

John R. Anderson, Mark V. Albert and Jon M. Fincham, "Tracing Problem Solving in Real Time: fMRI Analysis of the Subject-paced Tower of Hanoi", Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 17 (2005): 1261 - 1274
H. Clark Barrett, "On the functional origins of essentialism" [online]
H. Clark Barrett and Tanya Behne, "Understanding death as the cessation of intentional action: A cross-cultural developmental study" [online]
William Bechtel, Mental Mechanisms: Philosophical Perspectives on Cognitive Neuroscience
Margaret Boden, Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science [Blurb]
Karen A. Cerulo, Deciphering Violence: The Cognitive Structure of Right and Wrong
Sun-Ki Chai, Choosing an Identity: A General Model of Preference and Belief Formation
Clancy, Situated Cognition
Beth Crandall, Gary Klein and Robert R. Hoffman, Working Minds: A Practitioner's Guide to Cognitive Task Analysis [Blurb]
G. Csibra, S. Bro, O. Koos and G. Gergely, "One-year-old infants use teleological representations of actions productively," Cognitive Science 27 (2003): 111--133
Roy D'Andrade, The Development of Cognitive Anthropology [Blurb]
Judy S. DeLoache, "Becoming symbol-minded", Trends in Cognitive Sciences 8 (2004): 66--70
Merlin Donald, Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Cognition and Culture [Precis as a BBS target article]
Reuven Dukas (ed.), Cognitive Ecology: The Evolutionary Ecology of Information Processing and Decision Making
Jean-Pierre Dupuy, The Mechanization of the Mind
Kieran Egan, The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding
W. K. Estes, Classification and Cognition
Jeff Evans, Adults' Mathematical Thinking and Emotions: A Study of Numerate Practices
Jonathan St. B. T. Evans, "In two minds: dual-process accounts of reasoning", Trends in Cognitive Sciences 7 (2003): 454--459. Brought to my notice by reading an interesting comment by Frederick Toates, TiCS 8 (2004): 57 (link), pointing out that much of what Evans believes to be uniquely human has parallels in other animals, suggesting that the dual-systems design has older evolutionary roots.]
Klaus Fiedler and Peter Juslin (eds.), Information Sampling and Adaptive Cognition [Blurb]
Gardener, The Mind's New Science [History]
Peter Gärdenfors, Conceptual Spaces: The Geometry of Thought
Michael S. Gazzaniga, The Mind's Past
Vinod Goel, Sketches of Thought [blurb]
Alison Gopnik and Andrew N. Meltzoff, Words, Thoughts, and Theories
R. L. Gregory, Mind in Science
Griffin, Animal Minds
Jeff Hawkins and Sandra Blakeslee, On Intelligence
Ray Jackendoff
- Consciousness and the Computational Mind
- Languages of the Mind: Essays on Mental Representation
- Patterns in the Mind
Philip N. Johnson-Laird
- How We Reason
- Human and Machine Thinking
- Mental Models
- "Deductive Reasoning," Annual Review of Psychology (1999) 50:109--35 (online somewhere)
Bela Julesz, Dialogues on Perception
Simon Kemp, Cognitive Psychology in the Middle Ages
Jean Lave, Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life [Official Blurb which is almost certainly a mistake]
Margolis and Laurence (eds.), Concepts
Arthur B. Markman, Knowledge Representation
David McNeill, Hand and Mind: What Gestures Reveal about Thought
Gregory L. Murphy, The Big Book of Concepts [Blurb]
Nancy Nersessian, Creating Scientific Concepts [blurb]
Rolf Pfeifer and Josh C. Bongard, How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence [Blurb]
Rolf Pfeifer and Christian Scheier, Understanding Intelligence [Blurb]
Steven Phillips, "Systematic Minds, Unsystematic Models: Learning Transfer in Humans and Networks", Minds and Machines 9 (1999): 383--398
Thad A. Polk and Colleen M. Seifert (eds.), Cognitive Modeling
John Pollock, Cognitive Carpentry
Zenon W. Pylyshyn, Computation and Cognition: Toward a Foundation for Cognitive Science
Daniel Povinelli, Folk Physics for Apes: The Chimpanzee's Theory of How the World Works
Zhanna Reznikova, Animal Intelligence: From Individual to Social Cognition [blurb]
Don Ross, Economic Theory and Cognitive Science: Microexplanation [Blurb]
M. Sigman, G. A. Cecchi, C. D. Gilbert and M. O. Magnasco, "On a common circle: natural scenes and Gestalt rules," cond-mat/0105097
Speaking Minds [Interviews with cognitivists]
Dan Sperber (ed.), Metarepresentations
Peter Stockwell, Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction
Paul Thagard
- Mind: Introduction to Cognitive Science
- Coherence in Thought and Action
- Hot Thought: Mechanisms and Applications of Emotional Cognition [Blurb]
Mark Turner, Reading Minds: The Study of English in the Age of Cognitive Science
Kurt VanLehn, Mind Bugs: The Origins of Procedural Misconceptions [Blurb]
Jonathan A. Waskan
- "Intrinsic Cognitive Models," Cognitive Science 27 (2003): 259--283
- Models and Cognition [Blurb, which makes it sound an awful lot like Kenneth Craik's classic, The Nature of Explanation — not that that's a bad thing.]
Kielan Yarrow, Patrick Haggard, Ron Heal, Peter Brown and John C. Rothwell, "Illusory perceptions of space and time preserve cross-saccadic perceptual continuity," Nature 414 (2001): 302--305
Philip David Zelazo, "The development of conscious control in childhood", Trends in Cognitive Sciences 8 (2004): 12--17

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Cognitive science