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Listening in the field :recording and the science of birdsong
The transformation of sound recording into a scientific technique in the study of birdsong, as biologists turned wildlife sounds into scientific objects.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262345408
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Being and the screen :how the digital changes perception : published in one v…
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- 9780262355780
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- 1 online resource (240 pages).
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Extraordinary science and psychiatry :responses to the crisis in mental healt…
Leading scholars offer perspectives from the philosophy of science on the crisis in psychiatric research that exploded after the publication of DSM-5."Psychiatry and mental health research is in crisis, with tensions between psychiatry's clinical and research aims and controversies over diagnosis, treatment, and scientific constructs for studying mental disorders. At the center of these controv…
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- 9780262341752
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- 1 online resource (viii, 327 pages).
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Machine learners :archaeology of a data practice
Machine learning - programming computers to learn from data - has spread across scientific disciplines, media, entertainment, and government. Medical research, autonomous vehicles, credit transaction processing, computer gaming, recommendation systems, finance, surveillance, and robotics use machine learning. Machine learning devices (sometimes understood as scientific models, sometimes as oper…
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- 9780262342551
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 252 pages) :illustrations
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Quantified :biosensing technologies in everyday life
Today anyone can purchase technology that can track, quantify, and measure the body and its environment. Wearable or portable sensors detect heart rates, glucose levels, steps taken, water quality, genomes, and microbiomes, and turn them into electronic data. Is this phenomenon empowering, or a new form of social control? Who volunteers to enumerate bodily experiences, and who is forced to do s…
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- 9780262334549
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- 1 online resource (xxxi, 243 pages) :illustrations
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Trees of the brain, roots of the mind
"The human brain is often described as the most complex object in the universe. Tens of billions of nerve cells-tiny tree-like structures--make up a massive network with enormous computational power. In this book, Giorgio Ascoli reveals another aspect of the human brain: the stunning beauty of its cellular form. Doing so, he makes a provocative claim about the mind-brain relationship. If each n…
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- 9780262329026
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 232 pages) :illustrations
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This is why we can't have nice things :mapping the relationship between onlin…
Why the troll problem is actually a culture problem: how online trolling fits comfortably within today's media landscape.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262328999
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- 1 online resource (xi, 237 pages) :illustrations.
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Consciousness, attention, and conscious attention
"In this book, Carlos Montemayor and Harry Haladjian consider the relationship between consciousness and attention. The cognitive mechanism of attention has often been compared to consciousness, because attention and consciousness appear to share similar qualities. But, Montemayor and Haladjian point out, attention is defined functionally, whereas consciousness is generally defined in terms of …
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- 9780262327497
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 280 pages) :illustrations
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Thinking about oneself :from nonconceptual content to the concept of self
"In this book, Kristina Musholt offers a novel theory of self-consciousness, understood as the ability to think about oneself. Traditionally, self-consciousness has been central to many philosophical theories. More recently, it has become the focus of empirical investigation in psychology and neuroscience. Musholt draws both on philosophical considerations and on insights from the empirical sci…
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- 9780262329767
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 210 pages)
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The internet of things
We turn on the lights in our house from a desk in an office miles away. Our refrigerator alerts us to buy milk on the way home. A package of cookies on the supermarket shelf suggests that we buy it, based on past purchases. The cookies themselves are on the shelf because of a "smart" supply chain. When we get home, the thermostat has already adjusted the temperature so that it's toasty or braci…
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