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The Trouble with Computers: Usefulness, Usability, and Productivity
A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 425 pages) :illustrations
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Cognitive Science in Medicine: Biomedical Modeling
Cognitive Science in Medicine presents current research that focuses on issues and results in applying techniques from cognitive science to problems in biomedicine. "A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262315791
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 421 pages) :illustrations
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Cognition in the wild
Edwin Hutchins combines his background as an anthropologist and an open-ocean racing sailor and navigator in this account of how anthropological methods can be combined with cognitive theory to produce a new reading of cognitive science. His theoretical insights are grounded in an extended analysis of ship navigation - its computational basis, its historical roots, its social organization, and …
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- 9780262275972
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 381 pages) :illustrations
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Blockheads! :essays on Ned Block's philosophy of mind and consciousness
New essays on the philosophy of Ned Block, with substantive and wide-ranging responses by Block. Perhaps more than any other philosopher of mind, Ned Block synthesizes philosophical and scientific approaches to the mind; he is unique in moving back and forth across this divide, doing so with creativity and intensity. Over the course of his career, Block has made groundbreaking contributions to …
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- 9780262348973
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- 1 online resource (vii, 634 pages).
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Democracy despite itself :why a system that shouldn't work at all works so well
"Voters often make irrational decisions based on inaccurate and irrelevant information. Politicians are often inept, corrupt, or out of touch with the will of the people. Elections can be determined by the design of the ballot and the gerrymandered borders of a district. And yet, despite voters who choose candidates according to the boxer--brief dichotomy and politicians who struggle to put tog…
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- 9780262301701
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- 1 online resource (245 pages) :illustrations
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Cognitive Modeling
Computational modeling plays a central role in cognitive science. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to computational models of human cognition. It covers major approaches and architectures, both neural network and symbolic; major theoretical issues; and specific computational models of a variety of cognitive processes, ranging from low-level (e.g., attention and memory) to higher-…
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- 9780262281744
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 1270 pages) :illustrations.
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Animal thinking :contemporary issues in comparative cognition
"Eighth Ernst Str?ungmann Forum held Sep. 26-Oct. 1, 2010, Frankfurt am Main.""Do animals have cognitive maps? Do they possess knowledge? Do they plan for the future? Do they understand that others have mental lives of their own? This volume provides a state-of-the-art assessment of animal cognition, with experts from psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, ecology, and evolutionary biology addre…
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- 9780262298988
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- 1 online resource (xi, 342 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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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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Indefinite objects :scrambling, choice functions, and differential marking
A novel view of the syntax-semantics interface that analyzes the behavior of indefinite objects. In Indefinite Objects, Luis Lopez presents a novel approach to the syntax-semantics interface using indefinite noun phrases as a database. Traditional approaches map structural configurations to semantic interpretations directly; Lopez links configuration to a mode of semantic composition, with the …
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- 1 online resource (xi, 172 pages) :illustrations.
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The practice of light :a genealogy of visual technologies from prints to pixels
An account of Western visual technologies since the Renaissance traces a history of the increasing control of light's intrinsic excess.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 354 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color).
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