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Who you are :the science of connectedness
Why you are more than just a brain, more than just a brain-and-body, and more than all your assumptions about who you are. Who are you Are you just a brain A brain and a body All the things you have done and the friends you have made Many of us assume that who we really are is something deep inside us, an inner sanctuary that contains our true selves. In Who You Are , Michael Spivey argues that…
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- 9780262358408
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- 1 online resource (376 pages).
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Active inference :the free energy principle in mind, brain, and behavior
"A much-needed synthesis of active inference, a theory of mind that addresses cognition, behavior, intelligence, & mental disorders and which can be extended to explain behavior in all living systems"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262369974
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- 1 online resource.
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The evolving animal orchestra :in search of what makes us musical
A music researcher's quest to discover other musical species. Even those of us who can't play a musical instrument or lack a sense of rhythm can perceive and enjoy music. Research shows that all humans possess the trait of musicality. We are a musical species--but are we the only musical species Is our musical predisposition unique, like our linguistic ability In The Evolving Animal Orchestra ,…
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- 9780262351157
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- 1 online resource (160 pages).
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Qualitative representations :how people reason and learn about the continuous…
An argument that qualitative representations -- symbolic representations that carve continuous phenomena into meaningful units -- are central to human cognition. In this book, Kenneth Forbus proposes that qualitative representations hold the key to one of the deepest mysteries of cognitive science: how we reason and learn about the continuous phenomena surrounding us. Forbus argues that qualita…
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- 9780262349802
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 424 pages)
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3D shape :its unique place in visual perception
A new account of how we perceive the 3D shapes of objects and how to design machines that can see shapes the way we do.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262281652
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 278 pages) :illustrations
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Things and places :how the mind connects with the world
"A Bradford book."Problems in linking representation and perceived things in the world are discussed in light of the role played by a preconceptual indexing mechanism that functions to identify, reidentify, and track objects.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262282000
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 255 pages) :illustrations.
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Embodied music cognition and mediation technology
"Digital media handle music as encoded physical energy, but humans consider music in terms of beliefs, intentions, interpretations, experiences, evaluations, and significations. In this book, drawing on work in computer science, psychology, brain science, and musicology, Marc Leman proposes an embodied cognition approach to music research that will help bridge this gap. Assuming that the body p…
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- 9780262256551
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- 1 online resource (xv, 297 pages) :illustrations, music
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The body and the self
"A Bradford book."The Body and the Self brings together recent work by philosophers and psychologists on the nature of self-consciousness, the nature of bodily awareness, and the relation between the two. The central problem addressed is How is our grasp of ourselves as one object among others underpinned by the ways in which we use and represent our bodies? The contributors take up such issues…
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- 058502183X
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- 1 online resource (viii, 376 pages) :illustrations
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Auditory scene analysis :the perceptual organization of sound
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0585038201
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 773 pages) :illustrations
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Laws of seeing
Translated from the German."This classic 1936 work in vision science, written by a leading figure in Germany's Gestalt movement in psychology and appearing in English for the first time, addresses topics that remain of major interest to vision researchers today. Wolfgang Metzger's main argument, drawn from Gestalt theory, is that the objects we perceive in visual experience are not the objects …
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- 1 online resource (xxv, 203 pages) :illustrations
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