Emergent Cognitive Development

Theory, Model and Mechanism

 

 

 

 

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MA THesis Jelle van Dijk

Cognitive Science

Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Supervized by Maartje Raijmakers (UVA)

and Pim Haselager (KUN)

member of the EEC! reading group

 

 

 

On the pages below you will find a summary of what my MA thesis is about. Read the lot or jump through the hyperlinks as you please… Don't hesitate to email me with comments!

 

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Contents

  a basic point to make

  modeling cognitive development

  the task of the network

  EEC!

  further reading

  back to homepage

 

*) Back in the old days EEC! was called CHEESE. At the turn of the century however, cheese had become a bit cheesy and hard to swallow. So instead of cognition being 'historic, embodied, embedded, scaffolded and emergent', it remained purely embodied and embedded from then on. So…say EEC!