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Radicalizing Enactivism: Basic Minds without Content
Hutto and Myin promote the cause of a radically enactive, embodied approach to cognition which holds that some kinds of minds - basic minds - are neither best explained by processes involving the manipulation of contents nor inherently contentful. It opposes the widely endorsed thesis that cognition always and everywhere involves content. The authors defend the counter-thesis that there can be …
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The gameful world : approaches, issues, applications
What if every part of our everyday life was turned into a game? The implications of "gamification."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262325713
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- 1 online resource (ix, 676 pages) :illustrations
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Infectious Behavior: Brain-Immune Connections in Autism, Schizophrenia, and D…
Studies the possible interplay between the brain, immune system, and mental illnesses; how the discrepancies in the immune system can affect pregnant women and their fetuses; and the pros and cons of child vaccinations.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298568
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 162 pages) :illustrations (some color)
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Neural Basis of Motivational and Cognitive Control
This volume offers a range of perspectives on a simple problem How does the brain choose efficiently and adaptively among options to ensure coherent, goal-directed behaviour?OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298490
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 449 pages) :illustrations
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Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing
Push a button and turn on the television; tap a button and get a ride; click a button and "like" something. The touch of a finger can set an appliance, a car, or a system in motion, even if the user doesn't understand the underlying mechanisms or algorithms. How did buttons become so ubiquitous? Why do people love them, loathe them, and fear them? In Power Button, Rachel Plotnick traces the ori…
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Positive computing : technology for wellbeing and human potential
"On the eve of Google's IPO in 2004, Larry Page and Sergey Brin vowed not to be evil. Today, a growing number of technologists would go further, trying to ensure that their work actively improves people's lives. Technology, so pervasive and ubiquitous, has the capacity to increase stress and suffering; but it also has the less-heralded potential to improve the well-being of individuals, society…
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- 1 online resource (x, 288 pages).
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Design unbound designing for emergence in a white water world.
Includes index.Tools for navigating today's hyper-connected, rapidly changing, and radically contingent white water world. 'Design Unbound' presents a new tool set for having agency in the twenty-first century, in what the authors characterize as a white water world-rapidly changing, hyperconnected, and radically contingent. These are the tools of a new kind of practice that is the offspring of…
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On Perceived Motion and Figural Organization
"This work by and about Max Wertheimer collects together new translations of his two most important articles and places them in both historical and contemporary contexts with contributions by Michael Wertheimer [and others]"--Provided by publisher.Two seminal articles by a founder of the Gestalt school of psychology, newly translated and accompanied by essays that connect his work to current re…
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- 9780262305686
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 296 pages) :illustrations, facsimiles
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Experienced Wholeness: Integrating Insights from Gestalt Theory, Cognitive Ne…
An interdisciplinary account of phenomenal unity, investigating how experiential wholes can be characterized and how such characterizations can be analyzed computationally. How can we account for phenomenal unity? That is, how can we characterize and explain our experience of objects and groups of objects, bodily experiences, successions of events, and the attentional structure of consciousness…
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Vigor: Neuroeconomics of Movement Control
"Why do we run toward people we love, but only walk toward others? Why do people in New York seem to be in a rush? Why do our eyes linger longer on things we value more? There is a link between how the brain assigns value to things, and how it controls our movements. This link is an ancient one, developed through shared neural circuits that on one hand teach us how to value things, and on the o…
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 352 pages) :illustrations.
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