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Information and Living Systems
The informational nature of biological organization, at levels from the genetic and epigenetic to the cognitive and linguistic.Information shapes biological organization in …
Sentence Comprehension
Using sentence comprehension as a case study for all of cognitive science, David Townsend and Thomas Bever offer an integration of two major approaches, the symbolic-computational …
After Phrenology
A proposal for a fully post-phrenological neuroscience that details the evolutionary roots of functional diversity in brain regions and networks.The computer analogy of the mind …
Fast Oscillations in Cortical Circuits
The study of cortical oscillations is of great interest to those working in many areas of neuroscience. A fast coherent EEG rhythm called gamma or "40 Hz" has been implicated in …
The Processing and Acquisition of Reference
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.This volume brings together …
Modular Deficits in Alzheimer-Type Dementia
Bringing models and methods of cognitive neuropsychology to bear on the study of dementing disorders, these contributions present sound evidence that diseases of the Alzheimer type …
Neurotechnology for Biomimetic Robots
An overview of neurotechnology, the engineering of robots based on animals and animal behavior.The goal of neurotechnology is to confer the performance advantages of animal systems …
Reflections on Adaptive Behavior
J. E. R. Staddon's colleagues and former students discuss Staddon's work as a "theoretical behaviorist" and his influence on their own research.John Staddon has devoted his long …
Knowledge and Skepticism
New essays by leading philosophers explore topics in epistemology, offering both contemporary philosophical analysis and historical perspectives.There are two main questions in …
Knowledge Representation
This collection of extended versions of 12 papers from the First International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning provides a snapshot of the best …
The Myth of the Intuitive
A defense of traditional philosophical method against challenges from practitioners of "experimental philosophy."In The Myth of the Intuitive, Max Deutsch defends the methods of …
Real Natures and Familiar Objects
In Real Natures and Familiar Objects Crawford Elder defends, with qualifications, the ontology of common sense. He argues that we exist-that no gloss is necessary for the statement …