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Languages of the mind :essays on mental representation
"A Bradford Book."Over the past two decades, Ray Jackendoff has persistently tackled difficult issues in the theory of mind and related theories of cognitive processing. Chief among his contributions is a formal theory that elaborates the nature of language and its relationship to a broad set of other domains. Languages of the Mind provides convenient access to Jackendoff's work over the past f…
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- 9780262276122
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- 1 online resource (216 pages).
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Language, brain, and cognitive development :essays in honor of Jacques Mehler
"A Bradford book.""Short biography of Jacques Mehler": pages [513]-527.Interdisciplinary essays on central issues in cognitive science. In the early 1960s, the bold project of the emerging field of cognition was to put the human mind under the scrutiny of rational inquiry, through the conjoined efforts of philosophy, linguistics, computer science, psychology, and neuroscience. Forty years later…
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- 9780262272032
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- 1 online resource (xv, 541 pages) :illustrations
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Knowledge in action :logical foundations for specifying and implementing dyna…
Modeling and implementing dynamical systems is a central problem in artificial intelligence, robotics, software agents, simulation, decision and control theory, and many other disciplines. In recent years, a new approach to representing such systems, grounded in mathematical logic, has been developed within the AI knowledge-representation community. This book presents a comprehensive treatment …
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- 9780262282314
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 424 pages) :illustrations
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Knowledge engineering and management :the CommonKADS methodology
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262283236
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 455 pages) :illustrations
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Knowledge-based neurocomputing
Looking at ways to encode prior knowledge and to extract, refine, and revise knowledge within a neurocomputing system.Neurocomputing methods are loosely based on a model of the brain as a network of simple interconnected processing elements corresponding to neurons. These methods derive their power from the collective processing of artificial neurons, the chief advantage being that such systems…
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- 9780262270496
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 486 pages) :illustrations
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Jesuit science and the republic of letters
A reassessment of the Jesuit contributions to the emergence of the scientific worldview.Founded in 1540, the Society of Jesus was viewed for centuries as an impediment to the development of modern science. The Jesuit educational system was deemed conservative and antithetical to creative thought, while the Order and its members were blamed by Galileo, Descartes, and their disciples for virtuall…
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- 9780262272537
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- 1 online resource (xi, 483 pages) :illustrations.
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Mechanisms of implicit learning :connectionist models of sequence processing
"Axel Cleeremans is a Senior Research Assistant at the National Fund for Scientific Research, Belgium.""A Bradford book.""What do people learn when they do not know that they are learning? Until recently all of the work in the area of implicit learning focused on empirical questions and methods. In this book, Axel Cleeremans explores unintentional learning from an information-processing perspec…
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- 0585020388
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- 1 online resource (xii, 227 pages) :illustrations.
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Logic and information flow
"The thirteen chapters written expressly for this book by logicians, theoretical computer scientists, philosophers, and semanticists address, from the perspective of mathematical logic, the problems of understanding and studying the flow of information through any information-processing system. The logic of information flow has applications in both computer science and natural language processi…
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- 0585358451
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- 1 online resource (233 pages) :illustrations.
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MediaArtHistories
Leading scholars take a wider view of new media, placing it in the context of art history and acknowledging the necessity of an interdisciplinary approach in new media art studies and practice.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262274256
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- 1 online resource (xii, 475 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color).
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Materials in eighteenth-century science :a historical ontology
A history of raw materials and chemical substances from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries that scrutinizes the modes of identification and classification used by chemists and learned practitioners of the period, examining the ways in which their practices and understanding of the material objects changed.In the eighteenth century, chemistry was the science of materials. Che…
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- 9780262277266
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- 1 online resource (x, 345 pages) :illustrations.
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