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Curious Minds: The Power of Connection
"In Curious Minds: The Power of Connection, the authors explore what curiosity is and what it can do. Traipsing across the fields of philosophy and neuroscience, literature and network science, they discover that current definitions of curiosity are remarkably limited. Rather than think of curiosity as a drive to acquire new bits of information, they argue that curiosity is a practice of connec…
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Empathy: From Bench to Bedside
Recent work on empathy theory, research, and applications, by scholars from disciplines ranging from neuroscience to psychoanalysis.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298612
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- 1 online resource (ix, 324 pages) :illustrations.
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Blind Vision: The Neuroscience of Visual Impairment
Can a blind person see? The very idea seems paradoxical. Here the authors examine the effects of blindness and other types of visual deficit on the development and functioning of the human cognitive system.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295819
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- 1 online resource (269 pages) :illustrations
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Moral psychology
Groundbreaking essays and commentaries on the ways that recent findings in psychology and neuroscience illuminate virtue and character and related issues in philosophy.Philosophers have discussed virtue and character since Socrates, but many traditional views have been challenged by recent findings in psychology and neuroscience. This fifth volume of Moral Psychology grows out of this new wave …
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- 9780262337281
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- 1 online resource (4 volumes) :illustrations
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The Mind Within the Net :
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The Body Populace: Military Statistics and Demography in Europe before the Fi…
How data gathered from national conscriptions in pre-World War I Europe influenced understandings of population fitness and redefined society as a collective body. In pre-World War I Europe, individual fitness was increasingly related to building and preserving collective society. Army recruitment offered the most important opportunity to screen male citizens' fitness, raising questions of how …
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- 9780262350426
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Modeling neural development
Studies neural development using computational and mathematical modeling. Modeling provides precise and exact ways of expression, which allow us to go beyond the insights that intuitive or commonsense reasoning alone can yield. Most neural modeling focuses on information processing in the adult nervous system. This book shows how models can be used to study the development of the nervous system…
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- 9780262526395
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Machine learning for data streams with practical examples in MOA
A hands-on approach to tasks and techniques in data stream mining and real-time analytics, with examples in MOA, a popular freely available open-source software framework.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262346047
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 262 pages) :illustrations.
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Reforming Rules and Regulations: Laws, Institutions, and Implementation
Contributors examine how regulatory & institutional environments affect the functioning of markets & propose reforms, arguing that quantitative methods should be used to guide policy & to reform rules & regulations. These essays offer methodologies for the assessment of policy alternatives.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262289412
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- 1 online resource (x, 316 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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