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Individual and collective memory consolidation :analogous processes on differ…
An argument that individuals and collectives form memories by analogous processes and a case study of collective retrograde amnesia.We form individual memories by a process known as consolidation: the conversion of immediate and fleeting bits of information into a stable and accessible representation of facts and events. These memories provide a version of the past that helps us navigate the pr…
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- 9780262301664
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- 1 online resource (ix, 333 pages) :illustrations
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Induction : processes of inference, learning, and discovery
Includes appendix 12A: a walking tour of the computational ideas underlying classifier systems.Two psychologists, a computer scientist, and a philosopher have collaborated to present a framework for understanding processes of inductive reasoning and learning in organisms and machines. Theirs is the first major effort to bring the ideas of several disciplines to bear on a subject that has been a…
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- 0262081601
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 398 pages) : illustrations.
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- 100 HOL i
Productivity and Reuse in Language: A Theory of Linguistic Computation and St…
"Language allows us to express and comprehend an unbounded number of thoughts. This fundamental and much-celebrated property is made possible by a division of labor between a large inventory of stored items (e.g., affixes, words, idioms) and a computational system that productively combines these stored units on the fly to create a potentially unlimited array of new expressions. A language lear…
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- 9780262326803
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- 1 online resource (xii, 337 pages) :illustrations
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Memory as prediction :from looking back to looking forward
"An argument to view memory as predicting the future, rather than merely archiving the past. Based on experimental evidence from psychology and neuroscience"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262361213
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Beyond the cognitive map :from place cells to episodic memory
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262282192
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 420 pages) :illustrations
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The Brain's Representational Power: On Consciousness and the Integration of M…
Although science has made considerable progress in discovering the neural basis of cognition, how consciousness arises remains elusive. In this book, Pennartz analyzes which aspects of conscious experience can be peeled away to access its core: the relationship between brain processes and the qualitative nature of consciousness. Pennartz traces the problem back to its historical foundations and…
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- 9780262330121
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- 1 online resource (xi, 382 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color)
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The Vestigial Heart: A Novel of the Robot Age
English translation of: Mutaci?o sentimental. Lleida : Pag?es Editors, 2008.A thirteen-year-old girl wakes up in a future where human emotions are extinct and people rely on personal-assistant robots to navigate daily life. Imagine a future in which many human emotions are extinct, and "emotional masseuses" try to help people recover those lost sensations. Individuals rely on personal-assistant…
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- 9780262345941
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- 1 online resource (253 pages)
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Mental time travel episodic memory and our knowledge of the personal past
"In this book, Kourken Michaelian builds on research in the psychology of memory to develop an innovative philosophical account of the nature of remembering and memory knowledge.\sCurrent philosophical approaches to memory rest on assumptions that are incompatible with the rich body of theory and data coming from psychology.\sMichaelian argues that abandoning those assumptions will result in a …
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- 9780262334570
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- 1 online resource (xx, 291 pages) :illustrations.
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Memory and Movies: What Films Can Teach Us about Memory
"In the movie Slumdog Millionaire, the childhood memories of a young game show contestant trigger his correct answers. In Memento, the amnesiac hero uses tattoos as memory aids. In Away from Her, an older woman suffering from dementia no longer remembers who her husband is. These are compelling films that tell affecting stories about the human condition. But what can these movies teach us about…
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- 9780262330657
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- 1 online resource (xxv, 291 pages)
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In visible presence :Soviet afterlives in family photos
"How Soviet-era family photographs complicate official historical memory-producing forms of individual agency within controlled narratives of history"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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