Information processing, computation, and cognition

Journal of Biological Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-38

  Piccinini, Gualtiero ^b   Scarantino, Andrea ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Classicism; Cognitivism; Computation; Computational neuroscience; Computational theory of mind; Computationalism; Connectionism; Information processing; Meaning; Neural computation; Representation

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DIGITAL COMPUTER; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEUROSCIENCE; PHILOSOPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; THEORY OF MIND;

EID: 78751612419     PISSN: 00920606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10867-010-9195-3     Document Type: Review

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