book notice

[Leonor S. Cabral]

Dear Colleagues,
Could you be so kind and inform which are the recent publications ob
Katherine Nelson and Eve Clark?
Thank you,
Leonor Scliar-Cabral
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian MacWhinney" <macw at cmu.edu>
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Cc: "Jud Wolfskill" <wolfskil at MIT.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 6:33 PM
Subject: book notice


> Dear Info-CHILDES,
>
> I thought people might be interested in this book notice.
>
> --Brian MacWhinney
>
>
>
> The Algebraic Mind
> Integrating Connectionism and Cognitive Science
> Gary F. Marcus
>
> In The Algebraic Mind, Gary F. Marcus integrates two competing theories
> about how the mind works, one which says that the mind is a computer-like
> manipulator of symbols, and another which says that the mind is a large
> network of neurons working together in parallel. Refuting the conventional
> wisdom that says that if the mind is a large neural network it cannot
> simultaneously be a manipulator of symbols, Marcus shows how neural
systems
> could be organized so as to manipulate symbols, why such systems explain
> language and cognition better than systems that eschew symbols, how such
> system could evolve, and how they might unfold developmentally within the
> womb. The Algebraic Mind revamps our understanding of models in cognitive
> neuroscience and helps to set a new agenda for the field.
>
> Gary F. Marcus is Associate Professor of Psychology at New York
University.
>
> 6 x 9, 225 pp., 48 illus., cloth ISBN 0-262-13379-2
>
> Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change series
> A Bradford Book
>
> For more information please visit http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262133792
>