Cognitive studies

The problem of how the brain produces consciousness, subjectivity and 'something it is like to be' remains one of the greatest challenges to a complete science of the natural world.

The Final Volume of the Groundbreaking Trilogy on Agent-Based ModelingIn this pioneering synthesis, Joshua Epstein introduces a new theoretical entity: Agent_Zero.

The importance of rhythm spans time and space, its significance both natural and constructed.

What's so special about music?

A look at the true nature of the zombie brainEven if you've never seen a zombie movie or television show, you could identify an undead ghoul if you saw one.

An authoritative, up-to-date survey of the state of the art in artificial intelligence, written for non-specialists.

Why you are more than just a brain, more than just a brain-and-body, and more than all your assumptions about who you are.

A novel study on consciousness and the brain that places culture at the center of the analysis.

How our collective intelligence has helped us to evolve and prosperHumans are a puzzling species.

This book explores new developments in the dialogues between science and theatre and offers an introduction to a fast-expanding area of research and practice.

Over the last few decades, our knowledge of how the human mind and brain works increased dramatically.

An introduction to the study of children''s language development that provides a uniquely accessible perspective on generative/universal grammar–based approaches.

A capacity to act for reasons is a key indicator of intelligence.

The book explores the significance and dissemination of 'monstrous anatomies' in British and German culture by investigating how and why scientific and literary representations and descriptions of abnormal bodies were proposed in the late Enlightenment, during the Romantic and the Victorian Age.

An introduction to the mind–body problem, covering all the proposed solutions and offering a powerful new one.

A milestone in the study of value in human life and thought, written by one of the world s preeminent living philosophers The Moral Powers: A Study of Human Nature is a philosophical investigation of the moral potentialities and sensibilities of human beings, of the meaning of human life, and of the place of death in life.

A neuroscientist's bold proposal for tackling one of the greatest challenges of our timebrain and mental illnessesBrain research has been accelerating rapidly in recent decades, but the translation of our many discoveries into treatments and cures for brain disorders has not happened as many expected.

This interdisciplinary new work explores one of the central theoretical problems in linguistics: learnability.

Cultural neuroscience and global mental health is an interdisciplinary field of study that integrates theoretical, methodological, and empirical approaches in cultural neuroscience to address the major challenges in global mental health.

In this volume, questions at the intersection of mental representations and their verbal and non-verbal means of expression are discussed, using embodiment theory as a basis.

Understanding of the human brain functioning currently represents a challenging problem.

Le débat autour du mythe en tant que concept opposé à la pensée scientifique actuelle est au cœur de ce livre.

Hailed by the Washington Post as "e;a sure-footed and witty guide to slippery ethical terrain,"e; a philosophical exploration of AI and the future of the mind that Astronomer Royal Martin Rees calls "e;profound and entertaining"e;Humans may not be Earth's most intelligent beings for much longer: the world champions of chess, Go, and Jeopardy!

Ist das Hirn vernünftig?

Over the last few decades, our knowledge of how the human mind and brain works increased dramatically.

Neuroscience, the study of the structure and function of the brain, has captured our imaginations.

How our collective intelligence has helped us to evolve and prosperHumans are a puzzling species.

Songs, barks, roars, hoots, squeals, and growls: exploring the mysteries of how animals communicate by soundWhat is the meaning of a bird's song, a baboon's bark, an owl's hoot, or a dolphin's clicks?

The problem of consciousness continues to be a subject of great debate in cognitive science.

Acclaimed neuroscientist Gary Wenk reveals the fascinating impacts of exercise on the brainDecades of research demonstrate that regular modest levels of exercise improve heart and lung function and may relieve joint pain.

4E cognition (embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended) is a relatively young and thriving field of interdisciplinary research.

Acclaimed neuroscientist Gary Wenk reveals the fascinating impacts of exercise on the brainDecades of research demonstrate that regular modest levels of exercise improve heart and lung function and may relieve joint pain.

Inclusive Dance is an ethnography of disability arts, and historiographic overview of the 1980s when many new disability arts groups came to fruition.

In this volume, international experts in negation provide a comprehensive overview of cross-linguistic and philosophical research in the field, as well as accounts of more recent results from experimental linguistics, psycholinguistics, and neuroscience.

How do brains make minds?

Cognitive Science is an avowedly multidisciplinary field, drawing upon many traditional disciplines or research areas--including Linguistics, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Psychology, Anthropology, Artificial Intelligence, and Education--that contribute to our understanding of cognition.

FISCHER KOMPAKT.

How does your mind work?

Experience, Narrative, and Criticism in Ancient Greece pursues a new approach to ancient Greek narrative beyond the taxonomies of structuralist narratologies.

Fifty Years of Magnetoencephalography celebrates the first half century of research in and clinical applications of magnetoencephalography (MEG).