Each of our theories of mental representation provides some insight into how the mind
works. However, these insights often seem incompatible, as the debates between symbolic …

Abstract Representations have been viewed as the essential concern of cognitive science,
yet few studies have examined how people create, perceive, and attribute meaning to new …

We introduce symbolic dynamics to cognitive scientists with the aim of furthering constructive
debate on representation. Symbolic dynamics is a mathematical framework in which both …

In various contexts and for various reasons, writers often define cognitive processes and
architectures as those involving representational states and structures. Similarly, cognitive …

Clark has recently suggested that predictive processing advances a theory of neural function
with the resources to put an ecumenical end to the “representation wars” of recent cognitive …

In the 30 years since cognitive science was pioneered by Newell, Shaw, and Simon's (1957)
General Problem Solver, and by Chomsky's (1957) Syntactic Structures, an impressive body …

Cognitive representation is the single most important explanatory notion in the sciences of
the mind and has served as the cornerstone for the so-called'cognitive revolution'. This book …

The debate over symbolic versus sub-symbolic representations of human cognition has
been continuing for thirty years, with little indication of a resolution. The argument is this …

The conceptual frameworks that we bring to our study of cognition can have a tremendous
impact on the nature of that study. They provide a set of filters through which we view the …

Abstract Representation has always been a central part of models in cognitive science, but
this idea has come under attack. Researchers advocating the alternative approaches of …