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PhD HCC – Cognitive Science Reading List

  1. Anderson, J. R. (1993). Rules of the Mind. Chapters 1-4.
  2. Barsalou, L. W. (1999). Perceptual Symbol Systems. Behavior and Brain Sciences 22: 577-609.
  3. Forbus, K. D., Gentner, D., & Law, K. (1995). MAC/FAC: A model of similarity-based retrieval. Cognitive Science, 19(2), 144-206.
  4. Gentner, D. (1989). The mechanisms of analogical learning. In S. Vosniadou & A. Ortony (Eds.), Similarity and Analogical Reasoning (pp. 199-241). London: Cambridge University Press.
  5. Goel, A.K. (1997) Design, analogy and creativity. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 12(3):62-70, May/June 1997.
  6. Haugeland, J. (1997). Mind Design II: Philosophy, Psychology, Artificial Intelligence. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, Chapters by Turing, Dennett, Newell and Simon, Searle, Rumelhart, Smolensky, Clark, Brooks.
  7. Holyoak, K. J., & Thagard, P. (1989). Analogical mapping by constraint satisfaction. Cognitive Science, 13, 295-355.
  8. Hutchins, E. (1995) Cognition in the Wild. MIT Press, Chapter 9
  9. Kolodner, J.L. (1993). Case-based reasoning. Morgan Kaufmann, Calif., US.
  10. Kolodner, J. L. (1997). Educational implications of analogy: A view from case-based reasoning. American Psychologist, 52(1), 57-66.
  11. Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. (1980). Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
  12. Larkin, J. H. (1987). Why a diagram is (sometimes) worth ten thousand words. Cognitive Science, 11, 65-99
  13. Markman, A. B. (1999). Knowledge Representation. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Chapters 5-9.
  14. Nersessian, N. J. (2002). The cognitive basis of model-based reasoning. In The Cognitive Basis of Science, P. Carruthers, S. Stich, and M. Siegal eds. Open Court, pp. 178-211.
  15. Nersessian, N. J. (2005) Interpreting scientific and engineering practices: Integrating the cognitive, social, and cultural dimensions. In Scientific and Technological Thinking, M. Gorman, R. Tweney, D. Gooding, & A. Kincannon, eds. (Erlbaum). pp. 17-56
  16. Ram, A. & Leake, D. (Eds.) (1995) Goal-driven Learning, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/Bradford Books
  17. Ram, A. (1993). Creative conceptual change. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
  18. Schank, R. C. (1982). Dynamic Memory: A Theory of Reminding and Learning in Computers and People. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
  19. R. Schank & H. Abelson (1977). Scripts, Plans, Goals and Understanding. Chapters 1-3.
  20. Shore, B. (1996). Culture in Mind. Oxford, Chapters 2 & 13
  21. Tomasello, M. (1999). The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition. Harvard University Press. Chapters 1-4, 7.
  22. Tversky, A. (1977). Features of similarity. Psychological Review, 84(4), 327-352.
  23. Yaner, P. & Goel A., "Visual Analogies at Multiple Levels of Abstraction." In Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci-07), August 2007.