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Talking Minds: The Study of Language in the Cognitive Sciences by Thomas G. Bever 9780262521147
RRP: $36.12$27.03These essays by some of the most prominent figures in linguistics, artificial intelligence, and psychology explore the problems involved in creating a general cognitive science that will treat language, thought, and behavior in an integrated fashion... -
Processing Inaccurate Information: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives from Cognitive Science and the Educational Sciences by David N. Rapp 9780262547680
$68.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262547680Author David N. RappFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 369g -
The Things We Do: Using the Lessons of Bernard and Darwin to Understand the What, How, and Why of Our Behavior by Gary A. Cziko 9780262529440
RRP: $33.54$23.35Cziko shows how the lessons of Bernard and Darwin, updated with the best of current scientific knowledge, can provide solutions to certain long-standing theoretical and practical problems in behavioral science and enable us to develop new methods and... -
Neural Networks and Natural Intelligence by Stephen Grossberg 9780262570916
RRP: $79.98$59.31Stephen Grossberg and his colleagues at Boston University's Center for Adaptive Systems are producing some of the most exciting research in the neural network approach to making computers "think." Packed with real-time computer simulations and... -
Perception beyond Inference: The Information Content of Visual Processes by Liliana Albertazzi 9780262549172
$79.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262549172Author Liliana AlbertazziFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 454g -
Responsible Brains: Neuroscience, Law, and Human Culpability by William Hirstein 9780262549271
$57.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262549271Author William HirsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 454g -
Knowledge and the Flow of Information by Fred I. Dretske 9780262540384
RRP: $38.70$27.03What distinguishes clever computers from stupid people (besides their components)? The author of Seeing and Knowing presents in his new book a beautifully and persuasively written interdisciplinary approach to traditional problems-a clearsighted... -
The Mind within the Brain: How We Make Decisions and How those Decisions Go Wrong by A.David Redish 9780199891887
RRP: $56.75$43.65In The Mind within the Brain, David Redish brings together cutting edge research in psychology, robotics, economics, neuroscience, and the new fields of neuroeconomics and computational psychiatry, to offer a unified theory of human decision-making. Most... -
Comparative Decision-Making Analysis by Thomas R. Zentall 9780199856800
RRP: $135.45$107.90Decision making cuts across most areas of intellectual enquiry and academic endeavor. The classical view of individual human thinkers choosing among options remains important and instructive, but the contributors to this volume broaden this perspective... -
Analysis of the Cognitive Interview in Questionnaire Design by Gordon Willis 9780199957750
RRP: $50.94$35.98Cognitive interviewing, based on the self-report methods of Ericsson and Simon, is a key form of qualitative research that has developed over the past thirty years. The primary objective of cognitive interviewing, also known as cognitive testing, is to... -
Cultural Models: Genesis, Methods, and Experiences by Giovanni Bennardo 9780199908042
RRP: $81.27$70.76This book is about cultural models. Cultural models are defined as molar organizations of knowledge. Their internal structure consists of a 'core' component and 'peripheral' nodes that are filled by default values. These values are instantiated, i.e.,... -
Event Cognition by Gabriel A. Radvansky 9780199898138
RRP: $129.00$98.81Much of our behavior is guided by our understanding of events. We perceive events when we observe the world unfolding around us, participate in events when we act on the world, simulate events that we hear or read about, and use our knowledge of events... -
Human-Tech: Ethical and Scientific Foundations by Kim J. Vicente 9780199765140
RRP: $117.39$106.46In The Human Factor, Kim Vicente coined the term 'Human-tech' to describe a more encompassing and ambitious approach to the study of Human-Technology Interaction (HTI) than is now evident in any of its participating disciplines, such as human factors,... -
Attention: Philosophical and Psychological Essays by Christopher Mole 9780199759231
RRP: $141.90$126.46Attention has been studied in cognitive psychology for more than half a century, but until recently it was largely neglected in philosophy. Now, philosophers of mind increasingly recognize that attention has an important role to play in our theories of... -
It's a Jungle in There: How Competition and Cooperation in the Brain Shape the Mind by David Rosenbaum 9780199829774
RRP: $49.65$41.01It's a Jungle in There pursues the hypothesis that the overarching theory of biology, Darwin's theory, should be the overarching theory of cognitive psychology. Taking this approach, David Rosenbaum, a cognitive psychologist and former editor of the... -
The Conceptual Link from Physical to Mental by Robert Kirk 9780199669417
$81.67How are truths about physical and mental states related? Physicalism entails that non-physical truths are redescriptions of a world specifiable in narrowly physical terms. In The Conceptual Link from Physical to Mental Robert Kirk argues that... -
Attention and Associative Learning: From Brain to Behaviour by Chris Mitchell 9780199550531
RRP: $129.00$120.74Attention and learning are two of the most important topics in contemporary cognitive psychology and behavioural neuroscience. Of even more interest is how the two interact. Meaningful stimuli and their meaningful effects are invariably embedded in a... -
The Agile Mind by Wilma Koutstaal 9780199355815
RRP: $85.14$60.57This text proposes a new integrative framework for understanding and promoting creatively adaptive thinking. The mind is not only cognition, narrowly construed, but is deeply intermeshed with action, perception, and emotion. This means that optimal... -
If by Jonathan Evans 9780198525134
RRP: $138.68$118.81'If' is one of the most important and interesting words in the English language. It is used to express hypothetical thought - an essential part of human reasoning and decision making. This type of thought occurs wherever there is uncertainty, and... -
Causal Cognition: A Multidisciplinary Debate by Dan Sperber 9780198524021
RRP: $154.80$132.95An understanding of cause-effect relationships is fundamental to the study of cognition. In this book, outstanding specialists from comparative psychology, social psychology, developmental psychology, anthropology, and philosophy present the newest... -
Predictions in the Brain: Using Our Past to Generate a Future by Moshe Bar 9780195395518
RRP: $177.38$140.08When one is immersed in the fascinating world of neuroscience findings, the brain might start to seem like a collection of "modules," each specializes in a specific mental feat. But just like in other domains of Nature, it is possible that much... -
Emotions and the Body by Beatrice De Gelder 9780195374346
RRP: $122.55$113.61The face has long been considered the gateway to understanding human emotion and cognition. Body language is an equally powerful means of communication, however. Although faces and bodies can express themselves in many similar ways, examining their... -
Smoking Cessation with Weight Gain Prevention: Facilitator Guide by Bonnie J. Spring 9780195314021
RRP: $65.79$44.16Smoking is one of the greatest preventable causes of death, disease, and disability. While many people want to give up smoking, they're often unable to do so alone. Many smokers are also put off quitting because they're afraid of the potential weight... -
Innate Mind: Volume 2: Culture and Cognition by Peter Carruthers 9780195310146
RRP: $87.72$74.39This is the second of a three volume series on innateness-one of the central topics currently debated in the cognitive and behavioral sciences. The series grows out of interdisciplinary "working groups" at Rutgers University. The first volume... -
Causal Models: How People Think about the World and Its Alternatives by Steven Sloman 9780195183115
RRP: $70.95$48.57Human beings are active agents who can think. To understand how thought serves action requires understanding how people conceive of the relation between cause and effect, that is, between action and outcome. In cognitive terms, the question becomes one... -
The Innate Mind: Structure and Contents by Peter Carruthers 9780195179996
RRP: $61.91$46.57This is the first volume of a projected three-volume set on the subject of innateness. The extent to which the mind is innate is one of the central questions in the human sciences, with important implications for many surrounding debates. By bringing... -
From Conditioning to Conscious Recollection: Memory systems of the brain by Howard Eichenbaum 9780195178043
RRP: $50.30$41.53This cutting-edge book offers a theoretical account of the evolution of multiple memory systems of the brain. The authors conceptualize these memory systems from both behavioural and neurobiological perspectives, guided by three related principles... -
Narrative and Consciousness: Literature, Psychology and the Brain by Gary D. Fireman 9780195161724
RRP: $67.08$53.06The evocation of narrative as a way to understand the content of consciousness, including memory, autobiography, self, and imagination, has sparked truly interdisciplinary work among psychologists, philosophers, and literary critics. Even neuroscientists... -
Lifespan Cognition: Mechanisms of Change by Ellen Bialystok 9780195169539
RRP: $95.46$79.79This volume creates a bridge across cognitive development and cognitive aging. Pairs of researchers study the rise and fall of specific cognitive functions, such as attention, executive functioning, memory, working memory, representations, language,... -
Orienting of Attention by Richard D. Wright 9780195130492
RRP: $63.84$56.59This book is a succinct introduction to the orienting of attention. Richard Wright and Lawrence Ward describe the covert orienting literature clearly and concisely, illustrating it with numerous high-quality images, specifically designed to make the... -
Narrative and Consciousness: Literature, Psychology and the Brain by Gary D. Fireman 9780195140057
$114.53The evocation of narrative as a way to understand the content of consciousness, including memory, autobiography, self, and imagination, has sparked truly interdisciplinary work among psychologists, philosophers, and literary critics. Even neuroscientists... -
The Mind as a Scientific Object: Between brain and culture by Christina E. Erneling 9780195139327
RRP: $148.35$126.46Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Figurative Language and Thought by Albert N. Katz 9780195109634
RRP: $35.46$25.79Our understanding of the nature and processing of figurative language is central to several important issues in cognitive science, including the relationship of language and thought, how we process language, and how we comprehend abstract meaning. Over... -
Figurative Language and Thought by Albert N. Katz 9780195109627
RRP: $145.13$120.23Our understanding of the nature and processing of figurative language is central to several important issues in cognitive science, including the relationship of language and thought, how we process language, and how we comprehend abstract meaning. Over... -
Working Memory and Human Cognition by John T. E. Richardson 9780195101003
RRP: $113.52$94.53The purpose of this contribution to the Counterpoints series is to compare and contrast different conceptions of working memory. This is one of the most important notions to have informed cognitive psychology over the last 20 years or so, and yet it has... -
The Future of the Cognitive Revolution by David Martel Johnson 9780195103342
RRP: $87.72$74.12The model of the mind developed during the twentieth century's so-called "cognitive revolution" - that the mind is analogous to computer software - has recently lost its once virtually unquestioned pre-eminence. Thus we are now faced with the... -
The Logical Foundations of Cognition by John Macnamara 9780195092165
RRP: $92.88$76.96This volume, the fourth in the Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science published by OUP, examines the role of logic in cognitive psychology in light of recent developments. Gonzalo Reyes's new semantic theory has brought the fields of cognitive psychology... -
The Logical Foundations of Cognition by John Macnamara 9780195092158
RRP: $158.03$135.02This fourth volume in the Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science examines the role of logic in cognitive psychology in the light of recent developments. The chapters highlight the inadequacies of classical logic in its handling of ordinary language and... -
Computation, Dynamics, and Cognition by Marco Giunti 9780195090093
RRP: $98.04$90.25This book elaborates a comprehensive picture of the application of dynamical methods to the study of cognition. Giunti argues that both computational systems and connectionist networks are special types of dynamical systems. He shows how this dynamical... -
Brave New Mind: A Thoughtful Inquiry into the Nature and Meaning of Mental Life by Peter C. Dodwell 9780195089059
$51.92Brave New Mind is a historical and critical account of the development of the computational metaphor on the mind. According to this metaphor, the mind is viewed simply as an "outgrowth" or "emergent property" of the brain, a mere...