Ikhtisar Buku: Mekanisme Psikologis dalam Komunikasi Hewan; Perkenalan; Para editor volume "Mekanisme Psikologis dalam Komunikasi Hewan" ini membawa beragam perspektif dari bidang studi masing-masing—MAB dengan latar belakang ekologi perilaku, psikologi komparatif, dan neuroetologi yang berfokus pada komunikasi akustik pada katak, dan CTM dengan latar belakang evolusi biologi, psikologi kogni…
"A Bradford book.""Drawing on ideas from cognitive linguistics, connectionism, and perception, The Human Semantic Potential describes a connectionist model that learns perceptually grounded semantics for natural language in spatial terms. Languages differ in the ways in which they structure space, and Regier's aim is to have the model perform its learning task for terms from any natural languag…
"A Bradford book."In I of the Vortex, Rodolfo Llinas, a founding father of modern brain science, presents an original view of the evolution and nature of mind. According to Llinas, the 'mindness state' evolved to allow predictive interactions between mobile creatures and their environment. He illustrates the early evolution of mind through a primitive animal called the 'sea squirt.' The mobile …
"A Bradford book.""At the dawn of modern logic, Charles S. Peirce invented two types of logical systems, one symbolic and the other graphical. In this book Sun-Joo Shin explores the philosophical roots of the birth of Peirce's Existential Graphs in his theory of representation and logical notation. Shin demonstrates that Peirce is the first philosopher to lay a solid philosophical foundation fo…
"[Some essays] were first presented at the conference Character and Morality held at Radcliffe College in April 1988"--Acknowledgements."A Bradford book."Many philosophers believe that normative ethics is in principle independent of psychology. By contrast, the authors of these essays explore the interconnections between psychology and moral theory. They investigate the psychological constraint…
"A Bradford book."A novel contribution to the age-old debate about free will versus determinism.Do we consciously cause our actions, or do they happen to us? Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, theologians, and lawyers have long debated the existence of free will versus determinism. In this book Daniel Wegner offers a novel understanding of the issue. Like actions, he argues, the feel…
"A Bradford book."The ultimate goal of the cognitive sciences is to understand how the brain works--how it turns "matter into imagination." In Imagination and the Meaningful Brain, psychoanalyst Arnold Modell claims that subjective human experience must be included in any scientific explanation of how the mind/brain works. Contrary to current attempts to describe mental functioning as a form of…
A psychoanalytic and philosophical exploration of sublimation as a key term in Jacques Lacan's theories of ethics and feminine sexuality.Jacques Lacan claimed that his theory of feminine sexuality, including the infamous proposition, "the Woman does not exist," constituted a revision of his earlier work on "the ethics of psychoanalysis." In Imagine There's No Woman, Joan Copjec shows how Freud'…
"A Bradford book."Doing philosophy, according to Jerry Fodor, is like piloting: The trick is to find an object of known position and locate yourself with respect to it. In this book, Fodor contrasts his views about the mind with those of a number of well-known philosophers and cognitive scientists, including John McDowell, Christopher Peacocke, Paul Churchland, Daniel Dennett, Paul Smolensky, a…
Pengantar Kemajuan dalam Kontrol Motor Jilid ini melanjutkan tradisi seri" Progress in Motor Control", yang dimulai dengan penerbitan jilid pertama "Bernstein's Traditions in Movement Studies" (Latash 1998). Volume awal menampilkan bab-bab dari konferensi pertama yang diadakan pada tahun 1996 di State College, Pennsylvania. Selama 20 tahun terakhir, bidang kontrol motor telah berkembang secara …