"A Bradford book."Connectionist approaches, Andy Clark argues, are driving cognitive science toward a radical reconception of its explanatory endeavor. At the heart of this reconception lies a shift toward a new and more deeply developmental vision of the mind - a vision that has important implications for the philosophical and psychological understanding of the nature of concepts, of mental ca…
Revised edition of: Brain asymmetry / edited by Richard J. Davidson and Kenneth Hugdahl. c1995."A Bradford book."The folk belief that the left brain hemisphere is dominant for language and the right for visuospatial functions is incomplete and even misleading. Research shows that asymmetries exist at all levels of the nervous system and apply to emotional as well as to higher cognitive processe…
Di Sciullo argues that the asymmetric property of morphological relations is part of the language facility. She proposes a theory of grammar, Asymmetry Theory, according to which generic operations have specific instantiations in parallel deviations of the computational space.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Networked collaborations of artists did not begin on the Internet. In this multidisciplinary look at the practice of art that takes place across a distance -- geographical, temporal, or emotional -- theorists and practitioners examine the ways that art, activism, and media fundamentally reconfigured each other in experimental networked projects of the 1970s and 1980s. By providing a context for…
"In this Dahlem workshop report, scientists from different disciplines-including anthropology, psychology, psychiatry, and behavioral biology-come together to explore the concepts of attachment and bonding from diverse perspectives. In their studies they seek to understand the causes or the consequences of attachment and bonding in general and their different qualities in individual development…
"Based on the papers that were presented at the Fifteenth International Symposium on Attention and Performance held ... Erice, Sicily, Italy, July 26-31, 1992."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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"Based on the papers presented at the Eighteenth International Symposium on Attention and Performance, held at Cumberland Lodge, The Great Park, Windsor, Berkshire, England, July 12-18, 1998.""A Bradford book."One of the most challenging problems facing cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience is to explain how mental processes are voluntarily controlled, allowing the computational resou…
Selected papers, rev., of a workshop held at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, N.M., on July 1, 1994.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Pioneering essays on the idea of the Balkan as a body of knowledge and a cultural metaphor.Balkan. Somewhere between a tragedy and a myth, a place and a condition, the term is perhaps best understood as a metaphor. It has been used and abused in academia by proponents of opposing political views. Multiculturalism has appropriated it, as have postmodernism and postcommunism. It is used pejorativ…