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Blended Cognition

The Robotic Challenge

  • Explains the central concept of Blended Cognition
  • Connects a variety of disciplines
  • Includes authoritative contributions from different academic fields

Part of the book series: Springer Series in Cognitive and Neural Systems (SSCNS, volume 12)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Engineering

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
    2. Modeling Psycho-Emotional States via Neurosimulation of Monoamine Neurotransmitters

      • Max Talanov, Alexey Leukhin, Hugo Lövheim, Jordi Vallverdú, Alexander Toschev, Fail Gafarov
      Pages 127-156
    3. Towards Conversation Envisioning for Cognitive Robots

      • Maryam Sadat Mirzaei, Qiang Zhang, Stef van der Struijk, Toyoaki Nishida
      Pages 157-196
  3. Psychology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 197-197
    2. The Blending of Human and Autonomous-Machine Cognition

      • Robert Earl Patterson, Robert G. Eggleston
      Pages 199-216
    3. Heuristics of Numerical Choice in Economic Contexts

      • Kay-Yut Chen, Daniel S. Levine
      Pages 217-241
  4. Anthropology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243
  5. Logics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 273-273
    2. Toward a Logic of Everyday Reasoning

      • Pei Wang
      Pages 275-302
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 303-304

About this book

This edited volume is about how unprejudiced approaches to real human cognition can improve the design of AI. It covers many aspects of human cognition and across 12 chapters the reader can explore multiple approaches about the complexities of human cognitive skills and reasoning, always guided by experts from different but complimentary academic fields.

A central concept is explained: blended cognition, the natural skill of human beings for combining constantly different heuristics during their several task-solving activities. Something that was sometimes observed like a problem as “bad reasoning”, is now the central key for the understanding of the richness, adaptability and creativity of human cognition. The topic of this book connects in a significant way with the disciplines of psychology, neurology, anthropology, philosophy, logics, engineering, logics, and AI. In a nutshell: understanding better humans for designing better machines.

Any person with interests on natural and artificial reasoning should read this book as a primary source of inspiration and a way to achieve a critical thinking on these topics.



Editors and Affiliations

  • Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Spain

    Jordi Vallverdú

  • American College of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Vincent C. Müller

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Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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