Converging and diverging views on the mind, the self, consciousness, the unconscious, free will, perception, meditation, and other topics.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Psychiatrists and neuroscientists discuss the potential of computational approaches to address problems in psychiatry including diagnosis, treatment, and integration with neurobiology."Modern psychiatry is at a crossroads, as it attempts to balance neurological analysis with psychological assessment. Computational neuroscience offers a new lens through which to view such thorny issues as diagno…
"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…
First published in 2002, this is a comprehensive grammatical documentation of Kham, a previously undescribed language from west-central Nepal, belonging to the Tibeto-Burman language family. The language contains a number of grammatical systems that are of immediate relevance to current work on linguistic theory, including split ergativity, a mirative system, and a rich class of derived adjecti…
This volume gives an account of all the excavations undertaken at Clarendon in the twentieth century, including those of 1933–9 led by John Charlton and Tancred Borenius and the excavations by Elizabeth Eames and John Musty in the 1950s and 1960s. The history, archaeology and finds are examined together for the first time to present a detailed picture of palace life.
Basic concepts and case studies from an emerging field that investigates human capacities and pathologies at the intersection of brain and culture.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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…
"The book presents an introduction to, and an authoritative guide, for anyone interested in the problem of probabilistic inference in the presence of symmetries/structured models"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Shrouded in poetry, the earliest accounts of Hindu astronomy can strike modern readers as obscure. They involve the marriage of the moon to twenty-seven princesses, a war between gods and giants, and shadows that give birth to planets. In this fascinating study, first published in Calcutta in 1823 and reissued here in the 1825 edition, John Bentley (c.1750–1824) strives to strip back the myth…
"A Bradford book."Neurophysiological, neuroanatomical, and brain imaging studies have helped to shed light on how the brain transforms raw sensory information into a form that is useful for goal-directed behavior. A fundamental question that is seldom addressed by these studies, however, is why the brain uses the types of representations it does and what evolutionary advantage, if any, these re…