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Perception beyond Inference: The Information Content of Visual Processes
Proposing a new paradigm for perceptual science that goes beyond standard information theory and digital computation. This book breaks with the conventional model of perception that views vision as a mere inference to an objective reality on the basis of "inverse optics." The authors offer the alternative view that perception is an expressive and awareness-generating process. Perception creates…
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- 9780262295550
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- 1 online resource (ix, 445 pages) :illustrations
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Weather as medium :toward a meteorological art
In a time of climate crisis, a growing number of artists use weather or atmosphere as an artistic medium, collaborating with scientists, local communities, and climate activists. Their work mediates scientific modes of knowing and experiential knowledge of weather, probing collective anxieties and raising urgent ecological questions, oscillating between the "big picture systems view" and a grou…
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- 9780262353441
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- 1 online resource (xl, 233 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some colour)
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A brain for numbers :the biology of the number instinct
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- 9780262354318
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- 1 online resource (344 pages).
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Methuselah's Zoo: What Nature Can Teach Us about Living Longer, Healthier Lives
Stories of long-lived animal species—from thousand-year-old tubeworms to 400-year-old sharks—and what they might teach us about human health and longevity. Opossums in the wild don't make it to the age of three; our pet cats can live for a decade and a half; cicadas live for seventeen years (spending most of them underground). Whales, however, can live for two centuries and tubeworms for s…
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- 9780262370592
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What Is Health?: Allostasis and the Evolution of Human Design
An argument that health is optimal responsiveness and is often best treated at the system level. Medical education centers on the venerable “no-fault” concept of homeostasis, whereby local mechanisms impose constancy by correcting errors, and the brain serves mainly for emergencies. Yet, it turns out that most parameters are not constant; moreover, despite the importance of local mechanism…
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The Cognitive Neuroscience of Mind: A Tribute to Michael S. Gazzaniga
These essays on a range of topics in the cognitive neurosciences report on the progress in the field over the twenty years of its existence and reflect the many groundbreaking scientific contributions and enduring influence of Michael Gazzaniga, 'the godfather of cognitive neuroscience'.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262266055
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- 1 online resource (ix, 240 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color)
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On computing :the fourth great scientific domain
Computing isn't simply about hardware or software, or calculation or applications. Computing, writes Paul Rosenbloom, is an exciting and diverse, yet remarkably coherent, scientific enterprise that is highly multidisciplinary yet maintains a unique core of its own. In On Computing, Rosenbloom proposes that computing is a great scientific domain on a par with the physical, life, and social scien…
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- 9780262305280
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 307 pages) :illustrations
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Young People, Ethics, and the New Digital Media
Social networking, blogging, vlogging, gaming, instant messaging, downloading music and other content, uploading and sharing their own creative work: these activities made possible by the new digital media are rich with opportunities and risks for young people. This report, part of the GoodPlay Project, undertaken by researchers at Harvard Graduate School of Education's Project Zero, investigat…
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HAL's legacy : 2001's computer as dream and reality
I became operational... in Urbana, Illinois, on January 12, 1997. Inspired by HAL's self-proclaimed birth date, HAL's Legacy reflects upon science fiction's most famous computer and explores the relationship between science fantasy and technological fact. The informative, nontechnical chapters written especially for this book describe many of the areas of computer science critical to the des…
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- 9780262284455
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 384 pages) : illustrations (some color)
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The handbook of brain theory and neural networks
"A Bradford Book.""Dramatically updating and extending the first edition, published in 1995, the second edition of The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks presents the enormous progress made in recent years in the many subfields related to the two great questions: How does the brain work? and, How can we build intelligent machines? Once again, the heart of the book is a set of almost 3…
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- 2nd ed.
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- 0262011972
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 1290 pages) : illustrations.
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- 005 HAN
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