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Better than conscious? : DECISION MAKING, the HUMAN MIND, and IMPLICATIONS FO…
Experts discuss the implications of the ways humans reach decisions through the conscious and subconscious processing of information. Conscious control enables human decision makers to override routines, to exercise willpower, to find innovative solutions, to learn by instruction, to decide collectively, and to justify their choices. These and many more advantages, however, come at a price: the…
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Brain signal analysis Advances in Neuroelectric and Neuromagnetic Methods
This title explores recent developments in the tools and techniques of data acquisition and analysis in cognitive electrophysiology.
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Computational modeling methods for neuroscientists
This is a guide to computational modelling methods in neuroscience covering a range of modelling scales from molecular reactions to large neural networks.
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Catching Ourselves in the Act: Situated Activity, Interactive Emergence, Evol…
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record. Catching Ourselves in the Act uses situated robotics, ethology, and developmental psychology to erect a new framework for explaining human behavior. Rejecting the cognitive science orthodoxy that formal task-descriptions and their implementation are fundamental to an explanation of mind, Horst Hendriks-Jansen argues for an alternative…
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Emergence : Contemporary Readings in Philosophy and Science
This reader collects in one easy, accessible place, classic writings on emergence from contemporary philosophy and science. This title includes contributions from the likes of John Searle, Stephen Weinberg, Thomas Schelling, Stephen Wolfram and Jenny Fodor.
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Midbrain mutiny : The Picoeconomics and Neuroeconomics of Disordered Gambling…
An analysis of how economic theories can be used to understand disordered and pathological gambling that calls on empirical evidence about behavior and the brain and argues that addictive gambling is the basic form of all addiction.
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Neurological foundations of cognitive neuroscience
"A Bradford book."A review of a broad range of neurobehavioral syndromes from both neurological and cognitive neuroscientific perspectives.Despite dramatic advances in neuroimaging techniques, patient-based analyses of brain disorders continue to offer important insights into the functioning of the normal brain. Bridging the gap between the work of neurologists studying clinical disorders and n…
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The genetics of cognitive neuroscience / of Cognitive Neuroscience
A primer on understanding the influence of specific genetic variants on cognition, affective regulation, personality, and central nervous system disorders.
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Romance in the ivory tower The Rights and Liberty of Conscience
Should the choice to engage in a faculty-student romance be protected or precluded? An argument that the right to choose a romantic partner is a fundamental right of conscience, protected by the U.S Constitution.Allen Ginsberg once declared that "the best teaching is done in bed," but most university administrators would presumably disagree. Many universities prohibit romantic relationships bet…
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Knowledge and environmental policy: Re-imagining the boundaries of science an…
During the George W. Bush administration, politics and ideology routinely trumped scientific knowledge in making environmental policy. Data were falsified, reports were edited selectively, and scientists were censored. The Obama administration has pledged to restore science to the policy making process. And yet, as the authors of Knowledge and Environmental Policy point out, the problems in con…
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