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Scripting Reading Motions: The Codex and the Computer as Self-Reflexive Machines
An exploration of what experimental literature in both print and programmable media tells us about the act of reading.In Scripting Reading Motions, Manuel Portela explores the expressive use of book forms and programmable media in experimental works of both print and electronic literature and finds a self-conscious play with the dynamics of reading and writing. Portela examines a series of prin…
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- 9781461943303
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- 1 online resource (ix, 410 pages) :illustrations
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How Things Shape the Mind: A Theory of Material Engagement
An account of the different ways in which things have become cognitive extensions of the human body, from prehistory to the present.An increasingly influential school of thought in cognitive science views the mind as embodied, extended, and distributed rather than brain-bound or "all in the head." This shift in perspective raises important questions about the relationship between cognition and …
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- 9781461935674
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- 1 online resource (xv, 304 pages)
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The Interdisciplinary Science of Consumption
Scholars from psychology, neuroscience, economics, animal behavior, and evolution describe the latest research on the causes and consequences of overconsumption.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262325387
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 318 pages) :illustrations
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The Elm and the Expert: Mentalese and Its Semantics
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0585020515
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- 1 online resource (xii, 128 pages) :illustrations.
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Essays on Nonconceptual Content
"A Bradford book."According to the widespread conceptualist view, all mental contents are governed by concepts an individual possesses. In recent years, however, an increasing number of philosophers have argued for the indispensability of nonconceptual content based on perceptual, emotional, and qualitative experiences; informational and computational states; memory; and practical knowledge. Wr…
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- 9780262274524
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- 1 online resource (339 pages)
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Evolution and Learning: The Baldwin Effect Reconsidered
Based on a conference held in Nov. 1999 at Bennington College."A Bradford book."The role of genetic inheritance dominates current evolutionary theory. At the end of the nineteenth century, however, several evolutionary theorists independently speculated that learned behaviors could also affect the direction and rate of evolutionary change. This notion was called the Baldwin effect, after the ps…
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- 9780262285865
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- 1 online resource (x, 341 pages) :illustrations.
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The Evolution of Cognition
"A Bradford book."In the last decade, "evolutionary psychology" has come to refer exclusively to research on human mentality and behavior, motivated by a nativist interpretation of how evolution operates. This book encompasses the behavior and mentality of nonhuman as well as human animals and a full range of evolutionary approaches. Rather than a collection by and for the like-minded, it is a …
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- 9780262275330
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- 1 online resource (viii, 386 pages) :illustrations.
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Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience
An essential reference for the new discipline of evolutionary cognitive neuroscience that defines the field's approach of applying evolutionary theory to guide brain-behavior investigations.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262281669
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- 1 online resource (xix, 616 pages) :illustrations.
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Exercises in rethinking innateness: A handbook for connectionist simulations
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- 9780262287081
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Explaining behavior: reasons in a world of causes
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- 9780262271967
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- 1 online resource (xi, 165 pages)
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