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The Neural Basis of Free Will: Criterial Causation
The issues of mental causation, consciousness, and free will have vexed philosophers since Plato. In this book, Peter Tse examines these unresolved issues from a neuroscientific perspective.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262313155
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- 1 online resource (xii, 456 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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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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The First Half Second: The Microgenesis and Temporal Dynamics of Unconscious …
Recent advances in the study of visual cognition and consciousness have dealt primarily with steady-state properties of visual processing, with little attention to its dynamic aspects. The First Half Second brings together for the first time the latest research on the dynamics of conscious and unconscious processing of visual information, examining the time-course of visual processes from the m…
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- 9780262316293
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- 1 online resource (vii, 410 pages) :illustrations
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Foundations of cognitive science
"A Bradford book."What is cognitive science? Foundations of Cognitive Science answers this question in a way that gives a feeling for the excitement, ferment, and accomplishments of this new field. It is the first broad treatment of cognitive science at an advanced level.Complete and authoritative, Foundations of Cognitive Science covers the major architectures; provides background in philosoph…
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- 9780262281805
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 862 pages) :illustrations
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Foundations of Cognitive Psychology: Core Readings
"A Bradford book."Scientists from many disciplines, including physics, chemistry, biology, and neuroscience, contribute to the study of cognition. Cognitive psychology, the science of the human mind and of how people process information, is at the core of empirical investigations into the nature of mind and thought. This anthology is based on the assumption that cognitive psychology is at heart…
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- 9780262278263
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 862 pages) :illustrations.
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Five constraints on predicting behavior
A distinguished psychologist considers five conditions that constrain inferences about the relation between brain activity and psychological processes.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262341349
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- 1 online resource (viii, 246 pages)
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