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This book is the result of a meeting where neuroscientists and computer scientits explored the possibility of developing common ground for the study of intelligent behavior in animals and machines. Here, we analyze some of the methodological obstacles that create conflicts among the different disciplines that form Cognitive Science. Our aim is to set forth specific methodological considerations that might lead towards the amelioration of the Isolation Problem which results from the fact that each area of Cognitive Science has been developed in almost complete independence of the others. We argue that Isolation Problem has been in great part generated by the misuse of linguistic terms associated with mental events.
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Lara, N., Cervantes-Pérez, F. (1993). Methodological Considerations in Cognitive Science. In: Rudomin, P., Arbib, M.A., Cervantes-Pérez, F., Romo, R. (eds) Neuroscience: From Neural Networks to Artificial Intelligence. Research Notes in Neural Computing, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78102-5_32
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