Investigating Mind by Simulation

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size MURRAY J. LEAF is Professor of Anthropology and Political Economy at The University of Texas at Dallas. His principal area of interest is the relationship between the character and contents of human thought and social organization. Recent publications include Pragmatism and Development: the Prospect for Pluralist Transformation in the Third World (Westport: Bergen & Garvey, 1998), and “What is ‘Formal’ Analysis?” (in special issue of Cybernetics and Systems: An International Journal 35(2–3), (p. 129–145, 2004). Notes 1 All figures reprinted in the article, except Figure 1, are from Cognitive Modeling, edited by T. A. Polk and C. M. Seifert (Cambridge and London: The MIT Press, 2002). Figure 2 is from Elman, “Finding Structures in Time”; Figure 3 is from McLelland et al., “Why There Are Complementary Learning Systems in the Hippocampus and Neocortex”; and Figure 4 is from Cottrell and Plunkett, “Acquiring the Mapping from Meaning to Sounds.” The author gratefully acknowledge the editors of the book, the authors of the book chapters where the figures appear, and The MIT Press for permission to reprint them.