Cognition, Meaning and Action
Lodz-Lund Studies in Cognitive Science
The book is addressed to all readers interested in cognitive science, and especially
in research combining a logical analysis with psychological, linguistic and
neurobiological approaches.
The publication is the result of a collaboration between the Department of Cognitive
Science at University of Lodz and the Department of Cognitive Science at Lund University.
It is intended to provide a comprehensive presentation of the key research issues
undertaken in both Departments, including considerations on meaning, natural language and
reasoning, linguistic as well as numerical competence, the theory of decision making,
modelling of conceptual representations, cognitive and game theoretic approach to social
interactions.
The crossroads of cognitive science (Peter Gärdenfors, Piotr Łukowski)
7
Peter Gärdenfors, Cognitive science: From computers to ant hills as models of
human thought 11
Piotr Łukowski, Two procedures expanding a linguistic competence 31
Konrad Rudnicki, Neurobiological basis for emergence of notions 51
Frank Zenker, Similarity as distance: Three models for scientific conceptual
knowledge 63
Aleksander Gemel, Paula Quinon, The Approximate Numbers System and the treatment
of vagueness in conceptual spaces 87
Peter Gärdenfors, Jana Holsanova, Communication, cognition, and technology
109
Jana Holsanova, Roger Johansson, Kenneth Holmqvist, To tell and to show: The
interplay of language and visualizations in communication 123
Aleksander Gemel, Bartosz Żukowski, Semiotics, signaling games and meaning
137
Dorota Rybarkiewicz, Out of the box thinking 153
Annika Wallin, The everyday of decision making 169
Magdalena Grothe, Bartosz Żukowski, Short and long term social interactions
from the game theoretical perspective: A cognitive approach 181
Notes about Authors 193
196 pages, Paperback