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Cognitive Search: Evolution, Algorithms, and the Brain
Over a century ago, William James proposed that people search through memory much as they rummage through a house looking for lost keys. Like other animal species search space, we scour our environments for territory, food, mates, and other goals, including information. We search for items in visual scenes, for historical facts and shopping deals on internet sites, for new friends to add to our…
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- 9780262306003
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- 1 online resource (xi, 403 pages) :illustrations.
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The Politics of Invisibility: Public Knowledge about Radiation Health Effects…
Before Fukushima, the most notorious large-scale nuclear accident the world had seen was Chernobyl in 1986. The fallout from Chernobyl covered vast areas in the Northern Hemisphere, especially in Europe. Belarus, at the time a Soviet republic, suffered heavily: nearly a quarter of its territory was covered with long-lasting radionuclides. Yet the damage from the massive fallout was largely impe…
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- 9780262325417
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- 1 online resource (xii, 249 pages).
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Reliability in Cognitive Neuroscience: A Meta-Meta-Analysis
Cognitive neuroscientists increasingly claim that brain images generated by new brain imaging technologies reflect, correlate, or represent cognitive processes. This book warns against these claims, arguing that, despite its utility in anatomic and physiological applications, brain imaging research has not provided consistent evidence for correlation with cognition. It bases this argument on a …
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- 9780262312042
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 238 pages) :illustrations
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The Environmental Advantages of Cities: Countering Commonsense Antiurbanism
Conventional wisdom about the environmental impact of cities holds that urbanization and environmental quality are necessarily at odds. Cities are seen to be sites of ecological disruption, consuming a disproportionate share of natural resources, producing high levels of pollution, and concentrating harmful emissions precisely where the population is most concentrated. Cities appear to be parti…
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- 9780262314091
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- 1 online resource (ix, 234 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Rebel Genius: Warren S. McCulloch's Transdisciplinary Life in Science
"The book is a scientific biography of American neurophysiologist and cybernetician Warren S. McCulloch, one that places his life and work in historical context. By focusing on the various identities that he assumed throughout his life's major work--the study of the brain and mind--the book examines the intermingling of McCulloch's professional and personal worlds, and by doing so provides a mu…
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- 9780262335386
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 305 pages) :illustrations
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Evolution and Culture: A Fyssen Foundation Symposium
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- 9780262316224
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 296 pages) :illustrations.
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Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience
An essential reference for the new discipline of evolutionary cognitive neuroscience that defines the field's approach of applying evolutionary theory to guide brain-behavior investigations.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262281669
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- 1 online resource (xix, 616 pages) :illustrations.
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Exchange Rate Management under Uncertainty
These twelve essays take up economic management under flexible exchange rates in the presence of uncertainty. Nearly all of the contributions adopt a rational expectations framework, focusing on the stochastic aspects of the assumption and exploring the variability of, for example, output and prices in relation to the variability of various external disturbances.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliograph…
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Famous First Bubbles: The Fundamentals of Early Manias
The jargon of economics and finance contains numerous colorful terms for market-asset prices at odds with any reasonable economic explanation. Examples include "bubble," "tulipmania," "chain letter," "Ponzi scheme," "panic," "crash," "herding," and "irrational exuberance." Although such a term suggests that an event is inexplicably crowd-driven, what it really means, claims Peter Garber, is tha…
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- 9780262273497
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- 1 online resource (xi, 163 pages) :illustrations, map
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Fast Oscillations in Cortical Circuits
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