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Ageism - Stereotyping And Prejudice Against Older Persons

79,50€ + 10% CARD

 Current research and theory from a range of disciplines on ageism, discussing issues from elder abuse to age discrimination against workers, revised and updated.
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Thinking Things Through - An Introduction To Philosophical Issues And Achievements

by Clark Glymour

90,10€ + 10% CARD

 The second edition of a unique introductory text, offering an account of the logical tradition in philosophy and its influence on contemporary scientific disciplines.Thinking Things Through offers a broad, historical, and rigorous introduction to the logical tradition in philosophy and its contemporary significance. It is unique among introductory philosophy texts in that it considers both the historical development and modern fruition of a few central questions. It traces the influence of philosophical ideas and arguments on modern logic, statistics, decision theory, computer science, cognitive science, and public policy. The text offers an account of the history of speculation and argument, and the development of theories of deductive and probabilistic reasoning. It considers whether and how new knowledge of the world is possible at all, investigates rational decision making and causality, explores the nature of mind, and considers ethical theories. Suggestions for reading, both historical and contemporary, accompany most chapters. This second edition includes four new chapters, on decision theory and causal relations, moral and political theories, "moral tools" such as game theory and voting theory, and ethical theories and their relation to real-world issues. Examples have been updated throughout, and some new material has been added. It is suitable for use in advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate classes in philosophy, and as an ancillary text for students in computer science and the natural sciences.
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Introduction To The Event-Related Potential Technique

by Steven J. Luck

109,98€ + 10% CARD

 An essential guide to designing, conducting, and analyzing event-related potential (ERP) experiments, completely updated for this edition.The event-related potential (ERP) technique, in which neural responses to specific events are extracted from the EEG, provides a powerful noninvasive tool for exploring the human brain. This volume describes practical methods for ERP research along with the underlying theoretical rationale. It offers researchers and students an essential guide to designing, conducting, and analyzing ERP experiments. This second edition has been completely updated, with additional material, new chapters, and more accessible explanations. Freely available supplementary material, including several online-only chapters, offer expanded or advanced treatment of selected topics.The first half of the book presents essential background information, describing the origins of ERPs, the nature of ERP components, and the design of ERP experiments. The second half of the book offers a detailed treatment of the main steps involved in conducting ERP experiments, covering such topics as recording the EEG, filtering the EEG and ERP waveforms, and quantifying amplitudes and latencies. Throughout, the emphasis is on rigorous experimental design and relatively simple analyses. New material in the second edition includes entire chapters devoted to components, artifacts, measuring amplitudes and latencies, and statistical analysis; updated coverage of recording technologies; concrete examples of experimental design; and many more figures. Online chapters cover such topics as overlap, localization, writing and reviewing ERP papers, and setting up and running an ERP lab.
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Moral Psychology - Free Will And Moral Responsibility

70,23€ + 10% CARD

 Leading philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists address issues of moral responsibility and free will, drawing on new findings from empirical science.
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Ontology Of Consciousness - Percipient Action

169,60€ + 10% CARD

 Examines consciousness through the lens of intellectual approaches and cultures ranging from cosmology research and cell biophysics laboratories to pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and Tibetan Tantric Buddhism.
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Complementary Nature

by David A. Engstrom e J. A. Scott Kelso

63,60€ + 10% CARD

 Why do we divide our world into contraries? Why do we perceive and interpret so many of life''s contraries as mutually exclusive, either/or dichotomies such as individual~collective, self~other, body~mind, nature~nurture, cooperation~competition? Throughout history, many have recognized that truth may well lie in between such polar opposites. In The Complementary Nature, Scott Kelso and David Engstrøm contend that ubiquitous contraries are complementary and propose a comprehensive, empirically based scientific theory of how the polarized world and the world in between can be reconciled. They nominate the tilde, or squiggle (~), as the symbolic punctuation for reconciled complementary pairs.Experiments show that the human brain is capable of displaying two apparently contradictory, mutually exclusive behaviors at the same time. Coordination dynamics—a mathematically expressed theory that reconciles the scientific language of "states" with the novel dynamical language of "tendencies"—attests to the complementary nature inherent in human brains and behavior. It may explain, Kelso and Engstrøm argue, why we (and nature) appear to partition things, events, and ideas into pairs. Kelso and Engstrøm''s account is not just metaphorical; the reconciliations they describe are grounded in the principles and mathematical language of the theory of coordination dynamics. The Complementary Nature provides a clear-cut methodology for this evolving theory of brain and behavior that can also be applied to areas and developments outside the neurosciences, hence aiding reconciliations within and between disparate fields.
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Pain - New Essays On Its Nature And The Methodology Of Its Study

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 Leading philosophers and scientists examine the puzzles of pain and consider how the study of pain might help us to have a better understanding of the larger issues of consciousness and psychological research.
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Evolution And Culture - A Fyssen Foundation Symposium

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 Twelve original essays examine the symbiotic relation of culture and genome.
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Economic Theory And Cognitive Science - Microexplanation

by Don Ross

70,23€ + 10% CARD

 In this study, Don Ross explores the relationship of economics to other branches of behavioral science, asking, in the course of his analysis, under what interpretation economics is a sound empirical science. The book explores the relationships between economic theory and the theoretical foundations of related disciplines that are relevant to the day-to-day work of economics—the cognitive and behavioral sciences. It asks whether the increasingly sophisticated techniques of microeconomic analysis have revealed any deep empirical regularities—whether technical improvement represents improvement in any other sense. Casting Daniel Dennett and Kenneth Binmore as its intellectual heroes, the book proposes a comprehensive model of economic theory that, Ross argues, does not supplant, but recovers the core neoclassical insights, and counters the caricaturish conception of neoclassicism so derided by advocates of behavioral or evolutionary economics.Because he approaches his topic from the viewpoint of the philosophy of science, Ross devotes one chapter to the philosophical theory and terminology on which his argument depends and another to related philosophical issues. Two chapters provide the theoretical background in economics, one covering developments in neoclassical microeconomics and the other treating behavioral and experimental economics and evolutionary game theory. The three chapters at the heart of the argument then apply theses from the philosophy of cognitive science to foundational problems for economic theory. In these chapters, economists will find a genuinely new way of thinking about the implications of cognitive science for economics, and cognitive scientists will find in economic behavior, a new testing site for the explanations of cognitive science.
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Binocular Rivalry

129,85€ + 10% CARD

 Recent work on perceptual ambiguity and its implications for the correlation between neural events and perceptual experience.
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Visual Attention And Cortical Circuits

135,15€ + 10% CARD

 An attempt to derive a comprehensive theory of attention from both neurobiological and psychological data.
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Spatial Schemas And Abstract Thought

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 Proposes the means by which spatial structures might be adapted for nonspatial purposes, and it considers alternatives to spatial coding as a basis for abstract thought.
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Lingua Ex Machina - Reconciling Darwin And Chomsky With The Human Brain

by Derek Bickerton e William H. Calvin

46,38€ + 10% CARD

 Argues that reciprocal altruism and ballistic movement planning were "curb-cuts" that promoted the formation of structured language. Written in a dialogue form, the book presents a challenge to those who view the human capacty for language as a winner-take-all war between Chomsky and Darwin.
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Perception, Cognition, And Language - Essays In Honor Of Henry And Lila Gleitman

79,50€ + 10% CARD

 The essays range across fields foundational to cognitive science, including perception, attention, memory, and language, using formal, experimental, and neuroscientific approaches to issues of representation and learning.
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Introduction To Neural Networks

by James A. Anderson

149,73€ + 10% CARD

 This text is aimed at cognitive science and neuroscience students who need to understand brain function in terms of computational modelling and at engineers who want to go beyond formal algorithms to applications and computing strategies.
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Supertagging - Using Complex Lexical Descriptions In Natural Language Processing

99,38€ + 10% CARD

 Investigations into employing statistical approaches with linguistically motivated representations and its impact on Natural Language processing tasks.
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What Is Thought?

by Eric B. Baum

99,38€ + 10% CARD

 Toward a computational explanation of thought: an argument that underlying mind is a complex but compact program that corresponds to the underlying complex structure of the world.
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Computational Developmental Psychology

by Thomas R. Shultz

90,10€ + 10% CARD

 An overview of the emerging discipline of computational developmental psychology, emphasizing the use of constructivist neural networks.
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Moral Psychology - The Cognitive Science Of Morality: Intuition And Diversity

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 Discusses collaborative work in moral philosophy that draws on evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience. This set brings together some of the innovative work by both philosophers and psychologists.
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Moral Psychology - The Evolution Of Morality: Adaptations And Innateness

90,10€ + 10% CARD

 Discusses collaborative work in moral philosophy that draws on evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience. This set brings together some of the innovative work by both philosophers and psychologists.
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Processing And Acquisition Of Reference

90,10€ + 10% CARD

 How people refer to objects in the world, how people comprehend reference, and how children acquire an understanding of and an ability to use reference.
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Information And Living Systems - Philosophical And Scientific Perspectives

106,00€ + 10% CARD

 The informational nature of biological organization, at levels from the genetic and epigenetic to the cognitive and linguistic.
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Parallel Distributed Processing - Explorations In The Microstructure Of Cognition: Foundations

by David E. Rumelhart, James L. McClelland e Jerome Feldman

90,10€ + 10% CARD

 Volume 1 lays the foundations of this exciting theory of parallel distributed processing
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Explorations In Parallel Distributed Processing - Macintosh Version - A Handbook Of Models, Programs, And Exercises

by David E. Rumelhart e James L. McClelland

115,28€ + 10% CARD

 Includes 2 diskettes (for the Macintosh)
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