Why your political beliefs are influenced by the language you speakVoicing Politics brings together the latest findings from psychology and political science to reveal how the linguistic peculiarities of different languages can have meaningful consequences for political attitudes and beliefs around the world.
The human propensity to take an ethical stance toward oneself and others is found in every known society, yet we also know that values taken for granted in one society can contradict those in another.
A comprehensive treatment of visual ecologyVisual ecology is the study of how animals use visual systems to meet their ecological needs, how these systems have evolved, and how they are specialized for particular visual tasks.
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.
How our brains have evolved so that we control how we think and behaveThe Unpredictable Species argues that the human brain evolved in a way that enhances our cognitive flexibility and capacity for innovation and imitation.
How our stone-age brains made modern society, and why it matters for relationships between men and womenAs countless love songs, movies, and self-help books attest, men and women have long sought different things.
The first ethnographic exploration of the contentious debate over whether nonhuman primates are capable of cultureIn the 1950s, Japanese zoologists took note when a number of macaques invented and passed on new food-washing behaviors within their troop.
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!
How the sciences of the mind can advance the study of religionThe essence of religion was once widely thought to be a unique form of experience that could not be explained in neurological, psychological, or sociological terms.
This volume presents peer-reviewed versions of papers presented at the 14th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (NCPW14), which took place in July 2014 at Lancaster University, UK.
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.
Computational Models of Cognitive Processes collects refereed versions of papers presented at the 13th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (NCPW13) that took place July 2012, in San Sebastian (Spain).
En el campo de la didáctica de las ciencias experimentales existen diversos intereses orientados hacia los procesos de enseñanza, aprendizaje y evaluación.
Mit Beiträgen von Emil Angehrn, Tibor Bónus, Hajnalka Halász, Zoltán Kékesi, Friedrich Kittler, Zoltán Kulcsár-Szabó, Tamás Lénárt, Csongor LQrincz, Juliane Prade, Attila Simon, Susanne Strätling.
Fasse ich die wichtigsten Ergebnisse der vorliegenden Analyse zusammen, so halte ich fest, dass das Phänomen der Zeit und ihrer Flussrichtung - dem Zeitpfeil (Arrow of Time) - aufs engste verbunden ist mit Feststellungen über die Abschnitte der Zeit.
Gott wirft Adam und Eva aus dem Paradies, die Arche Noah übersteht die Sintflut, und Jesus von Nazareth erweckt Tote zum Leben – die faszinierenden Geschichten der Bibel sind fester Bestandteil unserer Kultur.
