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By far the best history of cognitive science, by a long-standing contributor to interdisciplinary research on the mind, is Margaret A. Boden, Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science (2006). Two thoroughly interdisciplinary collections of short articles on varied topics in cognitive science are Lynn Nadel (ed.), Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, 4 vol. (2003); and Robert A. Wilson and Frank C. Keil (eds.), The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (1999). Textbooks on cognitive science include José Luis Bermúdez, Cognitive Science: An Introduction to the Science of the Mind (2010); Jay Friedenberg and Gordon Silverman, Cognitive Science: An Introduction to the Study of Mind (2006); and Paul Thagard, Mind: Introduction to Cognitive Science, 2nd ed. (2005). A textbook in cognitive psychology that integrates neuroscientific findings is Edward E. Smith and Stephen Michael Kosslyn, Cognitive Psychology: Mind and Brain (2007).
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| Article title updated for style. | Oct 31, 2026 | ||
| Modified link of Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Editors Review and Introduction: Levels of Explanation in Cognitive Science: From Molecules to Culture. | May 16, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Editors Review and Introduction: Levels of Explanation in Cognitive Science: From Molecules to Culture. | Apr 01, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science - What is Cognitive Science? (PDF). | Aug 14, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Editors Review and Introduction: Levels of Explanation in Cognitive Science: From Molecules to Culture. | Jun 06, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: CORE - Cognitive Science (PDF). | Sep 07, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Pennsylvania State University - CiteSeerX - Cognitive Science: Emerging Perspectives and Approaches. | Jul 10, 2024 | ||
| Added a cross-reference to the Britannica article “Chinese room argument.” | Mar 17, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Social Sciences LibreTexts - The Cognitive Sciences- One or Many? | Dec 15, 2022 | ||
| New bibliography added. | Sep 15, 2011 | ||
| Article thoroughly revised and updated. | Sep 15, 2011 | ||
| New article added. | Mar 03, 2009 |