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• - The philosophical, scientific, and historical study of imagination and mental imagery, and their role in consciousness and cognition. Material by the site's creator and many links to other related sites.
  
• - An online (scanned) version of the seminal 1978 book by Aaron Sloman.
  
• - Subscription based service from MIT Press giving access to full text coyrighted material, discussions, and news.
  
• - The National Center for Scientific Research in France promoting study of cognition, especially in humans. Many of the working papers and links to other websites are in English.
  
• - Ten papers, originally published in the journal Cognitive Science, and judged by the editors to be classics of the field, made available for free download.
  
• - A virtual world for AI Researchers. Active and growing population, lively topics, and fun bots.
  
• - Virtual conference featuring ten target papers and discussions on the intersection between aesthetic experience, theories of perception and cognition. Content in english/french.
  
• - At UC Berkeley. Studies of eye movements (scanpaths), image processing, and virtual reality.
  
• - An interdisciplinary lab at the interface between the humanities the social sciences and the cognitive sciences. Content in French and English.
  
• - Links to many interactive illusions, demos, games and toys related to Cognitive Science.
  
• - Research areas: cognition and design (design knowledge and rationale, cognitive analysis), cognition and the use of machines (ergonomics, human factors) cognition and organizations (corporate memory, psycho-sociological issues).
  
• - Explores the biological, psychological, and cultural aspects of memory, from personal experiences to breakthroughs in cognitive science.
  
• - A glossary of Cognitive Science terminology. From Dr. Michael Dawson of the University of Alberta.
  
• - Good collection of links to Cognitive Science Researcher's home pages, and to relevant journals (online and paper).
  
• - Supplies daily news of the cognitive sciences via user submissions.
  
• - Reference work (published 2003) from the publishers of the journal Nature. This site exists mainly to persuade you to buy the print encyclopedia, but also makes several sample entries available.
  
• - MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory group led by Rodney Brooks. Working on robots Cog, Kismet, Coco & Macaco.
  
• - The author of "The Design of Everyday Things" writes essays on design, education, emotion and design, people, technology and society, and television.
  
• - Committed to the development of mind and brain research on the psychological, computational, and neuroscientific bases of perception and cognition.
  
• - Electrophysiology research investigating infant language development, language processing in normal monolingual and multilingual adults, and language processing in stuttering.
  
• - A personal account of face blindness (prosopagnosia), by a sufferer.
  
• - Series of five public radio lectures given by neuroscientist Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California, San Diego. The 2003 series of the prestigious annual BBC Reith Lectures. Lectures availabl
  
• - Studies of cognitive function via EEG, PET, and MRI with clinical diagnosis.
  
• - A facility for research into Cognitive Science and related areas of Philosophy. Headed by Paul Thagard, at the University of Waterloo, Canada.
  
• - A resource on memory and memory disorders. Information includes: books, journals, test publications, links to associations and upcoming conferences. From Psychology Press.
  
• - Cogprints makes preprints and reprints of papers in all areas of the cognitive sciences openly available on-line. Authors can deposit their work here, and all may freely read it. Directed by Stevan Harnad (best known as editor of Behavioral and Brain Scie
  
• - Provides education, documents, and an on-line community for Cognitive Task Analysis. (CTA describes some aspect of human operation and cognitive processing within a work domain.)
  
• - The author explains this particular condition and how those afflicted with this condition use other techniques to recognize people.
  
• - Researching the interactions between perception and cognition. Director: Robert Goldstone.
  
• - Essays and many useful links on embodied and 'situated' approaches to cognition: ranging from Artificial Life to Phenomenology, and much else.
  
• - John Anderson's ACT-R theory of cognition is a cognitive architecture aimed at computer simulating a full range of cognitive tasks.
  
• - Illinois State University cognitive science research and curriculum development project.
  
• - A company providing a standardized "evidence based" profile of brain function and cognition.
  
• - Focused on the study of cognition and action.
  
• - The premier professional organization in the field. Information on membership, conferences, and the journal Cognitive Science (including abstracts of recent and upcoming articles).
  
• - An index of Cognitive Science resources available on the Internet.
  
• - Article about a theory that all visual perceptions (illusory or otherwise) are an evolved set of behavioral reflexes.
  
• - The condition of prosopagnosia, or "face blindness," from the perspective of a person who suffers from it.
  
• - Links to resources and online papers on modularity in cognitive sciences, neurosciences, evolutionary biology and AI.
  
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• - Links page to writings by and about leading thinkers in cognitive science, and critics and observers of the cognitive sciences.
  
• - Online book on a machine learning system, by Walter Fritz.
  
• - Links to resources for research on facial expressions.
  
• - [Berlin] The lab, based at the Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development, explores cognitive strategies (including social and emotional components) with which people and other animals make judgments and decisions in the face of uncertain situations. Sta
  
• - A study of the cognitive basis of science. Special attention is given to implications for physics and mathematics. By Razvan Florian, a Romanian Physics student studying in Paris.
  
• - The "mental models" theory of thinking and reasoning, as propounded by Kenneth Craik and Philip Johnson-Laird. Site created by Johnson-Laird and Ruth Byrne.
  
• - Interactive exhibits, forum, and links aimed at exploring the observational basis and significance of the assertion that the nervous system underlies all aspects of human behavior and experience.
  
• - Outlines a subjective concept of science and the role of cognitive processes that support the structures of scientific theory.
  
• - An annotated bibliography of cognitive science, artificial intelligence, neurobiology, artificial life, linguistics, neural networks, connectionism, cognitive psychology, consciousness.
  
• - Studies the role of the parietal cortex in the processing of visual spatial information, and how such information is used to direct eye and arm movements. Many publications available online.
  
• - Yehouda Harpaz' model of human cognition, along with links to associated texts, including extensive critiques of publications associated with cognitive science.
  
• - Sponsors seminars and a conference for cognitive science in Austria.
  
• - British government program to promote research in cognitive sciences, neuroscience, and computer science.
  
• - Website for the International Cognitive Science Discussion List).
  
  

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