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The Complex Mind

An Interdisciplinary Approach

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  • © 2012

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Editors:
  1. David McFarland

    1. University of Oxford, UK

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  2. Keith Stenning

    1. University of Edinburgh, UK

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  3. Maggie McGonigle-Chalmers

    1. University of Edinburgh, UK

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  4. Language, Evolution and the Complex Mind

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-196
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    2. How to Qualify for a Cognitive Upgrade: Executive Control, Glass Ceilings and the Limits of Simian Success

      • Andy Clark
      Pages 197-222

    3. Private Codes and Public Structures

      • Colin Allen
      Pages 223-242

    4. The Emergence of Complex Language

      • Wolfram Hinzen
      Pages 243-263

    5. Language Evolution: Enlarging the Picture

      • Keith Stenning, Michiel van Lambalgen
      Pages 264-282

  5. Epilogue: Brendan McGonigle

    1. Epilogue: Brendan McGonigle

      • David McFarland, Keith Stenning, Maggie McGonigle-Chalmers
      Pages 283-288

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 289-295
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Combining the study of animal minds, artificial minds, and human evolution, this book examine the advances made by comparative psychologists in explaining the intelligent behaviour of primates, the design of artificial autonomous systems and the cognitive products of language evolution.

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  • University of Oxford, UK

    David McFarland

  • University of Edinburgh, UK

    Keith Stenning, Maggie McGonigle-Chalmers

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DAVID MCFARLAND Emeritus Fellow at Balliol College, University of Oxford, UK. He is author and editor of many books on behaviour; his most recent publications include Artificial Ethology, Oxford Dictionary of Animal Behaviour and Guilty Robots, Happy Dogs: The Question of Alien Minds.

KEITH STENNING Professor of Human Communication at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His research interests include: comparison of modalities of representation, learning/teaching of formal knowledge.

MARGARET MCGONIGLE Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Her research interests include developmental cognition, executive functioning in childhood autism and Fragile X syndrome and cognitive neuroscience.

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