Bibliography: p. 397-430

Includes indexes

Part I. Computation and the Mind. 1. How should the mind be studied? --- 2. Symbols and mental processes --- 3. Computability and mental processes ---- Part II. Vision. 4. The visual image --- 5. Seeing the world in depth --- 6. Scenes, shapes and images ---- Part III. Learning, Memory and Action. 7. Learning and learnability --- 8. The components of memory --- 9. Plans and productions --- 10. Parallel distributed processing --- 11. Action and the control of movement ---- Part IV. Cogitation. 12. Deduction --- 13. Induction, concepts and probability --- 14. Creation ---- Part V. Communication. 15. The nature of communication --- 16. Speech and hearing --- 17. Grammar --- 18. Meaning ---- Part VI: The Conscious and the Unconscious Mind. 19. Self-reflection, free will and intentions --- 20. Needs and emotions ---- Envoi

In a field choked with seemingly impenetrable jargon, Philip N. Johnson-Laird has done the impossible: written a book about how the mind works that requires no advance knowledge of artificial intelligence, neurophysiology, or psychology. The mind, he says, depends on the brain in the same way as the execution of a program of symbolic instructions depends on a computer, and can thus be understood by anyone willing to start with basic principles of computation and follow his step-by-step explanations. -- Publisher description

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