AIMS AND ORGANISATION OF THE PRESENT REPORT This document is a report on the state of Cognitive Science research in the European Economic Community. Since Cognitive Science is a young discipline, we have taken part of our task to be an exposition of its goals, methods and progress, and of its significance for technology. Subsequent to this exposition we survey the intellectual resources devoted to Cognitive Science research within member nations of the EEC. Specific proposals for the advancement of the discipline in Europe are also formulated. In more detail, the six chapters comprising the report may be summarized as follows. -Chapter 1 (What is Cognitive Science?) is an overview of the major research themes that define contemporary Cognitive Science. The relation of these themes to current technological issues Is also briefly discussed. -Chapter 2 (Survey of cognitive competencies) treats four principal axes of Cognitive Science research In more detail. Our discussion Is at once theoretical and applied Inasmuch as we describe potential app lications of basic research to technological and societal issues. -Chapter 3 (Biological perspective on Cognitive Science) is a discussion of neuroscience approaches to Cognitive Science. This chapter is intended to under line the distinction between Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence. -Chapter 4 (Cognitive ergonomics) highlights the study of man-machine interaction. It may be usefully accompanied by FAST series N" 9: "Mismatch between machine representations and human concepts."

Linguistics, neurocognition, and phenomenological psychology are fundamentally different fields of research. Helmut Schnelle provides an interdisciplinary understanding of a new integrated field in which linguists can be competent in neurocognition and neuroscientists in structure linguistics. Consequently the first part of the book is a systematic introduction to the function of the form and meaning-organising brain component - with the essential core elements being perceptions, actions, attention, emotion and feeling. Their descriptions provide foundations for experiences based on semantics and pragmatics. The second part is addressed to non-linguists and presents the structural foundations of currently established linguistic frameworks. This book should be serious reading for anyone interested in a comprehensive understanding of language, in which evolution, functional organisation and hierarchies are explained by reference to brain architecture and dynamics.

Linguistics, neurocognition, and phenomenological psychology are fundamentally different fields of research. Helmut Schnelle provides an interdisciplinary understanding of a new integrated field in which linguists can be competent in neurocognition and neuroscientists in structure linguistics. Consequently the first part of the book is a systematic introduction to the function of the form and meaning-organising brain component - with the essential core elements being perceptions, actions, attention, emotion and feeling. Their descriptions provide foundations for experiences based on semantics and pragmatics. The second part is addressed to non-linguists and presents the structural foundations of currently established linguistic frameworks. This book should be serious reading for anyone interested in a comprehensive understanding of language, in which evolution, functional organisation and hierarchies are explained by reference to brain architecture and dynamics.

1. Die Autoren dieses Buches hatten urspriinglich das Ziel, Studenten der Linguistik fortgeschrittene Modelle der prozeduralen und prozessualen Linguistik vorzustellen. Die Texte sollten anhand konkreter Fallstudien und Programmierhinweise in das Gebiet einfiih- reno Entscheidende Teile des Buches entsprechen in der Tat dieser Planung. Dies gilt insbesondere fUr den ersten Teil, die Fallstudien des zweiten Teils sowie die Programmie- rungsanleitungen des dritten Teils. Diese Passagen konnten in einer ersten Lektiire des Buches ffir sich gelesen werden, wenn die anderen Abschnitte noch zu schwierig erschei- nen. Bei der Arbeit an unserem Buch hat es sich aber als unurnganglich herausgestellt, dem interessierten Studenten auch die Reflexion dber die grundlegenden Zielsetzungen und Fragestellungen und ihre Bedeutung fdr die Linguistik nahezubringen. Grundfragen waren es schliefilich, die die Entwicklung der Modelle motiviert haben und noch motivieren, denn es geht in der Linguistik nicht primae urn eine Technik zur Realisation von Sprachproduk- ten - obwohl die dargestellten Inhalte und Methoden auch diesem Ziel dienen werden -, sondem urn ein Verstiindnis, wie Sprache nieht nur struk. turell-abstrakt, sondem vielmehr konkret im Gebrauch und in der Realisation in Mensch und Computer existiert. Nur durch die konkrete innere Auspragung im Organismus oder im Mechanismus, sei es in der neuronalen Vemetzung der die Sprechakte realisierenden Teile des Gehlms, sei es in der im Computer verfdgbaren Kombination von universaler Hardware (CPU etc. ) und spezifi- scher Software (des gespeicherten Progranuns) wird die Sprache wirksam.