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    Abarbanell, L.509
    Abbott, Jack Henry434
    Abramson, Fred161
    absolute nonconceptual content296, 7
    abstract condition534
    accelerating Turing machine164, 30
    access consciousness23
    Ackerman, B.443
    action-based framework279
    action condition413
    action individuation532
    activation of concepts352
    active attention101
    adaptation97
    adaptive lag482
    adaptive processes97
    Adrian, Edgar236
    adults, psychological essentialism in457–58
    affect program188
    allocation devices88
    Alzheimer's disease141
    American Council of Learned Societies445, 17
    analog computation235
    analytical behaviorism340
    analytic cognitive style511
    anaphoric relations369
    A-not-B error137
    anterior insula412
    anthropomorphism172
    a priori knowledge320, 1
    Armon-Jones, C.184
    Armstrong, Katherine216
    ascent-routine theory419
    associationism241
      essentialism and466
    asymmetric dependency analysis345
    attentional learning account (ALA)464
    attributions413
    auditory cues98
    auditory-location106
    Australian Aboriginal languages390
    Australopithecines493
    automatic mimicry414
    automatic processing441
    autonomous mobile robot135
    Baars, Bernard28
    backward masking34
    Baillargeon, R.405
    Baron-Cohen, Simon406
    Barrett, Clark322, 4
      on associationism466
      on minimal functional notion of modules64
    Bayesian model47
    Bayes’ theorem41
    Bayne, Tim96
    Berinmo pattern510
    blending emotions195
    blindsight35
    Block, Ned25, 152, 163, 321, 3
      on access consciousness23
      on phenomenal consciousness31
    Boland, J.E.512
    Bostrom, Nick167
    brainstorming439
    Braitenberg, Valentino172
    Brazilian Amazonia505
    Brentano, Franz121
    Bricolo, Emanuela205
    brute causal327
    Buckner, R.L.415
    Buller, David485
    Bunge, Mario160
    Calder, A.J.413
    Callanan, M.A.466
    Campbell, John216
    canonical decomposition303
    canonical description262
    canonical neurons132
    capacity-limitation management205
    Carroll, D.C.415
    Cartesian confidence142
    Cartesian Theater26
    central cognition, confederate view of67
    Charcot, Jean-Martin437
    cheater detection mechanism65, 392
    Cherniak, C.325
    Choi, I.51
    Cialdini, R.B.442
    Clark, Austen101
    clinical narcissism433, 9
    cocktail party effect206
    cognitive architecture10, 60
    cognitive flexibility, confederate account of80
    cognitive impenetrability63
    cognitive interpretation266
    cognitive mechanisms61, 63
      individuation of66
    cognitive niche construction49–50
    cognitive styles
    cognitive theories of consciousness27–28
    cognitive trails50
    Cohen, Stewart42
    collected information351
    Collingwood, R.G.411
    color contrast298
    color identification task510
    color vocabulary510
    combinatorial explosion77
    commonsense psychology, Fodor on403
    compellingness101
    composite concepts339
    compositional massive modularity79
    compositional plurality66
    computation, theory of262
    computational problems84
    conceptual identity301
    conceptualization fallacy295
    conceptual states293
    concrete condition534
    confederate view of central cognition67
    confederate view of cognitive flexibility80
    confirmation holism341
    conjoinability392
    conservatism76
    consistency76
    consumption problem81
    context-sensitivity466
    control shell88
    convention, individuation and111
    core knowledge406
    correspondence problems113
    creature consciousness20
    Cudworth, Ralph319
    Culbertson, James163
    cybernetics movement283
    Davidoff, J.510
    Davis, Miles251
    decision making
      constraints46
    decompositional plurality66
    deductive closure409
    de Fockert, J.W.211
    deliberative democracy442
    deliberative polling443
    Dennett, Daniel26
      on evolutionary psychology489
      multiple drafts model28
      on rationality-teleology theory408–9
      on strong representationalism253
    deployment of concepts352
    DesChene, Dennis428, 3
    descriptive tasks43
    Deutsch, J.A.208
    developmentalists418
    de Villiers, J.390
    de Villiers, P.390
    dichotic listening experiments206
    diet, culture and515
    difference vector264
    differential looking time test485
    disagreement105
    discontinuities267
    discrete state machine152
    discrimination behavior137
    disgust mirroring412
    display rules193
    dispositional properties319
    distal properties267
    diversity53
    domain-general capacities
    domain-specificity62, 63
      cultural information acquisition mechanisms513–17
      of folk theories506
    Donald, Merlin139
    dorsal stream36
    down-stream module392
    Down syndrome406
    downward entailing374
    dual process approach441
    dual-process model275
    dumb attentional mechanisms464
    dumbfounding441
    duplication problem170
    Edelman, Gerald29, 30
    E-imagination414
    Eliasmith, Chris284
    Ellenberger, H.437
    embedded accounts5
    embedded cognition
    embodied accounts5
    empathy theory410
    employment test151
    end effectors263
    enduring substance319
    energy, individuation of111
    environmental canalization324
    environmental differences in cross-cultural diversity511–12
    Environment of Evolutionary Adaptiveness322, 5
    enzymatic computation, cognitive-behavioral flexibility and85–88
    E-rationality43
    error management521
    essentializing388
    evolutionary rationality54
    evolvability68
    excessive world modelling124
    explanatorily independent94
    explanatory transparency268
    explicit memory37
    expressive behaviors172
    expressive capacity349
    extended Turing machine (ETM)161
    eye saccades133
    facial actions193
    facial mimicry414
    faithfulness assumption405
    Feature Integration Theory210
    feedback control systems283
    Feigenbaum test151
    field dependence511
    field independence511
    finiteness of universal165
    finite-yet-unbounded language363
    Fiskin, J.S.443
    flash illusion99
    focal colors510
    Fodor's Puzzle of Concept Acquisition334
    Folds-Bennett, Trisha432, 7
    folk biology506
    folk-physics392
    folk theories, domain-specificity of506
    Ford, Kenneth151
    formality condition255
    forward kinematics263
    forward model284
    framework concepts343
    Frankish, K.395
    Fregean tradition301
    function, individuation of111
    functional fixedness517
    functional mechanisms230
    fundamental divisions298
    Gallagher, S.259
    Gandhi, Mohandas437
    General Problem Solver (GPS)119, 204
    generatively entrenched homologies504–6
    generic computationalism236
    genetic canalization325, 7
    geocentricism386
    geometric information394
    Gibsonian foundations of embodied cognition120–23
    global broadcasting395
    global representation269
    global workplace theories28
    Godfrey-Smith, P.226
    Goldstone, R.L.49
    Goodale, M.36
    Goodin, R.E.429
    Goodman, Nelson337
    Good Old-Fashioned AI (GOFAI)153
    Gould, Stephen G.60
    Greenspan, P.184
    Gregory, Richard121
    Gross, S.12
    hallucinations435
    Harlow, H.F.432
    Hayes, Patrick151
    Hebbian learning282
    Heidegger, Martin121
    Herbert of Cherbury319
    Hermer-Vazquez, L.393
    Higginbotham, J.364
    higher order theories of consciousness25–26
    hippocampus37
    Hobbes, Thomas223
    Hodgkin, A.L.226
    holism problem81
    holistic cognitive style511
    Hollywood Squares paradigm134
    Homo erectus493
    Hong, Lu53
    hot metaphor185
    Hurlburt, R.T.419
    Husserl, Edmund121
    Hutchins, Edwin139
    Huxley, A.F.226
    hypothesis confirmation338
    hypothetical deductive (HD)352
    Iacoboni, M.413
    imagine-based simulation416
    impactful research439
    implications444
    implicit memory37
    incest taboos522
    incompatibility532
    incompatiblists537
    infant behavior137
    inferential holism73, 78
    informal motivation267
    information, collected351
    informational encapsulation62, 63
    informational impoverishment71
    information flow209
    information integration theories29–30
    information-processing architecture286
    inherent appropriateness102
    inhibitory control405
    innate potential459
    input/output digital (I/O)234
    input problem, Fodor's82 f
    integrated competition model203
    integrated modalities96
    integration problem81
    “Intelligent Machinery” (Turing)150
    intentional action539
    intentional internals268, 22
    intentionalism108
    intention condition413
    interaction, among sensory systems97
    intermediate level representation theories28–29
    intermodal binding109
    internal environment265
    internal models285
    intractability arguments70
    intramodal restrictions108
    introspectionism419
    intuitive cognition55
    inverse dynamics264
    inverse kinematics264
    Inverted Earth25
    Jackendoff, R.343
    Jacoby, L.38
    Johnson-Laird, Philip275
    J-shaped distribution47
    Kacelnik, A.43
    Kauppinen, A.537
    Keeley, B.L.112
    Keltner, Dacher194
    King, Martin Luther, Jr.437
    Kleene, Stephen223
    Kornblith, Hilary54
    Kosslyn, S.M.415
    Krascum, R.M.467
    Kurzban, R.64
    Landy, D.49
    Language Acquisition Device325
    Lasker-Bauer combination276
    late selection theory208
    Lavie, Nilli211
    Lavoisier, Antoine53
    Lee, M.D.47
    Lenat, Douglas148
    Levenson, R.W.197
    Lewis, David344
    Lewontin, D.321
    lexical concepts291
    limited pancomputationalism227, 1
    local recurrence models of consciousness31–32
    Loebner Contests153
    Loewenstein, G.416
    Logical Positivism340
    logical structure340
    long-term memory280
    low-level mind-reading414
    Luria, Alexander508
    MacDonald, C.253
    MacDonald, G.253
    Macpherson, C.B.429
    mandatory operation62
    Marcel, Anthony34
    Marwick, Ben495
    matching bias54
    mathematical intuition160
    McCarrell, N.S.466
    McCarthy, John148
    McConnell-Ginet, S.371, 8
    McDaniel, D.378
    McDermott, K.38
    meaning-blind158
    meaning relation261
    means-end reasoning306
    mechanistic assumptions10
    mechanistic explanations5
    medium-independence231
    Meltzoff, Andrew403
    Meno (Plato)319
    Milner, A.36
    mimicking digital computer152
    minimal functional notion of modules64
    minimal link condition261
    mirror system412
    miscomputation231
    Mithen, Stephen496
    modality appropriateness hypothesis102
    modularity-nativist approach406–8
    modules383
      characteristics of188
      minimal functional notion of64
    Mole, Christopher9, 218
    Moore, Gordon166
    Moore, Tirin216
    Moravec, Hans166
    Moray, Neville206
    motion aftereffect illusion300
    motion-bounce effect99
    motor mirroring412
    multiple drafts model of consciousness26–27
      Dennett on28
    Naccache31
    Nadelhoffer, T.534
    Nagel, Thomas6, 21
    narcissistic personality disorder433
    narrative consciousness23
    National Socialism441
    natural meaning229
    natural semantic information237
    nature-versus-nurture462
    negative polarity items (NPIs)375, 376
    nervous system, evolution of279
    Neumann, Odmar216
    neural imaging techniques34
    neural localization62
    neural-network approaches240
    neural synchrony theories of consciousness30–31
    neuroanatomical data225
    neurobiological theories of consciousness30–32
    neuronal global workspace31
    neurophysiological data225
    neuroscience11
    neurotransmitters238
    Newton's law136
    Nichols-Stich theory418
    Nilsson, N.J.151
    nonbasic emotions198
    nonexperimental philosophy540
    non-naturalism348
    non-natural meaning229
    non-natural semantic information237
    nonobvious properties460
    non-overlapping pools84
    nonvisual modalities93
    Norenzayan, A.512
    Normalization Model214
    normative project538
    normative rationality54
    normative tasks43
    object-files391
    O’Callaghan, Casey8
    occurant properties319
    one-reason decision heuristics46–47
    one-way dependence24
    Onishi, K.H.405
    optic ataxia36
    O’Regan, J.K.130
    orientation98
    ostension, learning in518
    overt speech387
    Page, Scott53
    pain mirroring412
    paleoanthropology496
    Papafragou, A.509
    paradigmatic belief states293
    paradox of preface409
    parallel distributed processing (PDP)268
    Parasuraman, Raja212
    parents, children and490
    passive attention101
    Pastukhov, A.213
    perceptual expectations114
    perceptual experiences95
    perceptual load211
    perceptual mechanisms96
    performance factors63
    perspective53
    perspicuous representation161, 25
    Peruvian Indians507
    phenomenal consciousness31
    phenomenalism340
    phenomenal states22
    phenotypic plasticity504
    phenotypic variation321
    phenylketonuria (PKU)329, 13
    philosophical method539
    physical symbol system162, 254
    physical world, cognition in5–6
    physiological channels, individuation of111
    physiology of preference279
    Piccinini, Gualtiero5
    Pickwick representation260
    picture principle303
    pipeline architecture, cognitive-behavioral flexibility and83–85
    plasticity
      representational78
    positive polarity item (PPI)373
    possessive individualism429
    PP-rationality43
    precedent effects442
    prelinguistic children388
    prepotent tendencies405
    prescriptive tasks43
    Prinz, Jesse9, 29
    privileged access417
    problem solving286
    production blocking439
    proprioception103
    Proudfoot11
    psychic unity504
    psychological data225
    psychological processes536
    psychological refractory period210
    psychological universals
      in folk psychology507
      generatively entrenched homologies504–6
    public reasoning process396
    qualia realist theories of consciousness27
    qualifications444
    qualitative states22
    quality spaces338
    quantum computation235
    quarantine failure416
    Ramachandran, V.129
    Ramsey, Frank344
    rational conceptual nativism (RCN)334
    reconceptualization295
    reconciliation105
      explanation of107
    reference
      intuition and530
    reference fixers344
    reference relation261
    Reingen, P.H.442
    relationships, among senses97
    relative nonconceptual content296, 7
    relativism51
    reliabilism42
    representational flexibility78–79
    representational integration78
    representational plasticity78
    Representational Relation256
    representational theory of mind (RTM)251, 1
    representation-as303
    representation-lite136
    research methods, consciousness32–34
    retinal flow257
    Richerson, P.J.436
    rich multimodality94
    rigidity assumption261
    Rizzolatti, Giacomo412
    Robber's Cave experiment442
    Roediger, H.38
    Rosenfeld, A.119
    Rosenthal, David24
    rotation experiment509
    Rubin, Edgar213
    same-order theories26
    Sapir-Whorf hypothesis508
    satisficing46
    scenario content299
    schadenfreude193
    Schleiermacher411
    Schöner, G.136
    Schooler, J.419
    Schwartz, E.L.439
    security housing units434
    Security Housing Unit Syndrome434
    self-awareness21, 26
    self-narrative23
    self-projection415
    Sellars, Wilfrid403
    semantic properties206
    sensory classification thesis300
    sentience20
    seriatim54
    shallow outputs62
    Shannon-McCarthy/block objection151–52
    Shapiro, Larry5
    Shoemaker, S.419
    short-term memory520
    Shusterman, A.393
    Siegelmann, Hava164
    similarity-based reasoning464
    simplicity76
    simulated robot behavior124
    simulation fallacy156
    simulation version163
    Singer, Wolf30
    Singularity is Near (Kurzweil)171, 40
    Sinnott-Armstrong, W.430, 6
    situating cognition125
    Skinner, B.F.202
    Slaughter, V.407
    Slovic, P.54
    Smolensky, Paul164
    social behavior481
    social emotions444
    social intelligence hypothesis48
    Social Intuitionist model441
    socially embedded cognition440
    sociobiology482
    solitary confinement434
    somatosensory cortex412
    spatio-temporal unity114
    specific disposition349
    Sperling's partial report304
    split-brain thought-experiments170
    Stalnaker, R.345
    standard linguistic entities (SLEs)262
    Stanovich, K.54
    state conceptualism296, 7
    state consciousness20
    Stigmergy50
    stimulus conditions34
    stream of consciousness23
    strong central modularity67
    strong massive modularity62
    Styles, Elizabeth212
    substance abuse435
    subsumption architecture83, 18, 258
    superarticularity153
    superior temporal sulcus132
    surface orientation265
    surrounding conditions78
    swarm intelligence50
    symbol manipulation119
    syncategoramatic260
    syntactic thesis260
    tacit knowledge130
    tactual-object106
    take-the-best heuristic46
    task specificity135
      massive modularity and69
    teleological stance410
    temporal information101
    theory of mind mechanism (ToMM)407–8
      modularity theory and408
    thermodynamics228
    Tinbergen-Lorenz experimental program481
    Tinkertoy mechanism276
    Tononi, Giulio29
    Tower of Hanoi puzzle120
    toy bear example465
    tractability77
    transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)36
    transitive consciousness22
    trial-and-error learning516
    Truth Value Judgment Task373, 375
    Turing-type neural net148
    turning gear439
    Tversky, A.54
    two factor theories346
    two-tier structure472
    type-individuation256
    understanding-acceptance principle54
    unencapsulated process, intractability of73–74
    Ungerleider, L.G.216
    unified multimodality95
    unity assumptions105
    universalism52
    unlimited pancomputationalism227, 1
    valenced marker277
    Van Boven, L.416
    Van Gulick, Robert7
    ventral stream36
    verbal dual task510
    Verifiable Theory of Meaning340
    virtual sociality426
    visual cortex216
    visual-location106
    visual-object106
    visual processing35
    visual streams36
    visual targets98
    von Neumann machine65
    Waddington, C.H.323
    wakefulness21
    Watt Governor283
    weak central modularity67
    weak massive modularity62
      cognitive-behavioral flexibility and82–83
    Weierstrauss, Karl339
    weighting function103
    West, R.54
    Westermarck, E.522
    Wolpert, D.M.284
    Woodward, A.L.407
    Woolfolk, R.533
    world making124
    x-type representation260
    Yamamoto, Masaki172
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