Cognitive Science

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063096363Author Paul BloomFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 327g

A look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions-and how this shapes our everyday livesWhy is it hard to text and drive at the same time? How do you resist eating that extra piece of cake? Why does staring at a tax form feel...

Why people are not as gullible as we thinkNot Born Yesterday explains how we decide who we can trust and what we should believe-and argues that we're pretty good at making these decisions. In this lively and provocative book, Hugo Mercier demonstrates...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101982853Author Barbara OakleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501135217Author Adrian OwenFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

Have you ever done something stupid, dangerous or self-sabotaging just to get one over someone else? Most of us have. Simon McCarthy-Jones draws on psychology, current affairs, literature and genetics to illuminate - whether we admit it or not - our...

A major new theory of why human intelligence has not evolved in other speciesThe Human Evolutionary Transition offers a unified view of the evolution of intelligence, presenting a bold and provocative new account of how animals and humans have followed...

Religions and mythologies from around the world teach that God or gods created humans. Atheist, humanist, and materialist critics, meanwhile, have attempted to turn theology on its head, claiming that religion is a human invention. In this book, E...

Weighing in from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, today's most forward-thinking minds explore the rise of "machines that think." Stephen Hawking recently made headlines by noting, "The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250044822Author Robert A BurtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

Aesthetics has long been the preserve of philosophy, art history, and the creative arts but, more recently, the fields of psychology and neuroscience have entered the discussion, and the field of neuroaesthetics has been born. In Brain, Beauty, and...

A pioneering text in its first edition, this revised publication of Cognitive Poetics offers a rigorous and principled approach to literary reading and analysis.The second edition of this seminal text features:* updated theory, frameworks, and examples...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578591278Author Louis FerranteFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Maij PublishingPublisher Maij PublishingWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047593Author Wei Ji MaFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

A radically new cosmological view from a groundbreaking neuroscientist who places the human brain at the center of humanity's universe Renowned neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis introduces a revolutionary new theory of how the human brain evolved to become...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545204Author Fergus CraikFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Cognitive science arose in the 1950s when it became apparent that anumber of disciplines, including psychology, computer science,linguistics, and philosophy, were fragmenting. Perhaps owing to thefield's immediate origins in cybernetics, as well as to...

A provocative new vision of how our world really works - and why chance determines everything.In Fluke, myth-shattering social scientist Brian Klaas deep-dives into the phenomenon of randomness, unpicking our neat and tidy storybook version of events to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913710033Author Seth ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Readers First Publishing LtdPublisher Readers First Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 177g

Today's most visionary thinkers reveal the cutting-edge scientific ideas and breakthroughs you must understand. Scientific developments radically change and enlighten our understanding of the world -- whether it's advances in technology and medical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637480144Author Bernard HaischFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint New Page Books,USPublisher Red Wheel/Weiser

A look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions-and how this shapes our everyday livesWhy is it hard to text and drive at the same time? How do you resist eating that extra piece of cake? Why does staring at a tax form feel...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262043496Author Samuel Jay KeyserFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 21mm

This book shows how language can be used strategically to manipulate beliefs. From Machiavelli to P. T. Barnum to Donald Trump, many have perfected the art of strategically using language to gain the upper hand, set a tone, change the subject, or...

More than meets the eye - the science of how we see and the secrets it reveals about how the brain works. Spotting a familiar face in a crowd is so easy, you take it for granted. But how you do it is one of science's great mysteries. Vision is...

The Embodied Mind approaches AI and the modern revolutionary breakthroughs in medicine, biology, and physics in conversation with the role of the humanities. A mathematician, engineer, and physician, Professor Thanasis Fokas is interested in intensive...

The Embodied Mind approaches AI and the modern revolutionary breakthroughs in medicine, Athanassios Fokas biology, and physics in conversation with the role of the humanities. A mathematician, engineer, and physician, Professor Thanasis Fokas is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984881991Author Michael PollanFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 550gDimensions(mm) 243mm *...

A new approach to understanding irrational behavior and modeling human cognitionWhat does it mean to act rationally? Mathematicians, economists, and statisticians have argued that a rational actor chooses actions that maximize their expected utility. By...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358560824Author Joseph MurphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Prakash Books India Private LimitedPublisher Prakash Books India Private Limited

This book offers an investigation of emotional appeals (pathos) in natural language argumentation. Building on rhetorical theory, psychology, and computational linguistics, it introduces an interactional model of pathos to explain how emotions are...

Cutting across the disciplines of trans gender studies and psychology, this book examines the psychological decision-making process behind twenty-three Malaysian trans men's journeys navigating masculinity from childhood through adulthood. Using...

After the research psychologist Barbara Blatchley lost her husband and partner of thirty-six years, her life changed utterly. Seeking to understand the pain and confusion she felt, Blatchley began exploring the psychology and neuroscience of bereavement...

After the research psychologist Barbara Blatchley lost her husband and partner of thirty-six years, her life changed utterly. Seeking to understand the pain and confusion she felt, Blatchley began exploring the psychology and neuroscience of bereavement...

This book aims to justify and systematize the desiderata that a satisfying philosophical account of mental representations should meet, which is consistent with common-sense practice and scientific research. According to the author, the most important...

The volumes in this series contain studies in computational vision or "image understanding", and explain the computations that underlie the extraction and use of visual information by both biological and artificial systems. Reprints of seminal studies...

In this open access book, Carlos Montemayor illuminates the development of artificial intelligence (AI) by examining our drive to live a dignified life.He uses the notions of agency and attention to consider our pursuit of what is important. His method...

Media coverage of scientific issues is a highly complex process. It involves making a specialized field accessible to the general public, without necessarily disseminating the associated scientific terms or knowledge. The terminological interactions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632407238Author Ernest SimmondsFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint Clanrye InternationalPublisher Clanrye InternationalWeight(grams) 644gDimensions(mm)...

The notion that human thought is structured like a language, with a precise syntax and semantics, has been pivotal in recent philosophy of mind. Yet it is not a new idea: it was systematically explored in the fourteenth century by William of Ockham and...