Everything you've always wanted to know about self-driving cars, Netflix recommendations, IBM's Watson, and video game-playing computer programs. The future …
An important collection of studies providing a fresh and original perspective on the nature of mind, including thoughtful and detailed …
There is more than one way to think. Most people are familiar with the systematic, rule-based thinking that one finds …
Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of 2011A Globe and Mail Best …
The emerging field of neuroeducation, concerned with the interaction between mind, brain and education, has proved revolutionary in educational research, …
When we play the ancient and noble game of chess, we grapple with ideas about honesty, deceitfulness, bravery, fear, aggression, …
Do you need to be a genius to be good at chess? What does it take to become a Grandmaster? …
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Thinking, Fast and Slow tells you what you need …
Although the ability to retain, process, and project prior experience onto future situations is indispensable, the human mind also possesses …
In the same way atomic structures explain the physical properties of an object, neuroscientists are now learning about the human …
The Cognitive Science of Religion introduces students to key empirical studies conducted over the past 25 years in this new …
This book offers a concise and accessible introduction to the emerging field of artificial cognitive systems. Cognition, both natural and …
Marvin Minsky -- one of the fathers of computer science and cofounder of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT -- …
Mind design is the endeavor to understand mind (thinking, intellect) in terms of its design (how it is built, how …
Stimulus class formation has been studied independently by two groups of researchers. One group has come out of a learning …
This unique contribution to the ongoing discussion of language acquisition considers the Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus in …
Cognitive Science 35 (2011) 1207–1242.A central goal of modern generative grammar has been to discover invariant properties of human languages …
You are a mind reader, born with an extraordinary ability to understand what others think, feel, believe, want, and know. …
In The Language Instinct, Steven Pinker, well-known for his revolutionary theory of how children acquire language, lucidly explains everything you …
Current theories and views on the differences in the 'mind' of human societies depend very much on a dichotomy between …
This book connects entrepreneurship and psychology research by focusing on the personality dimensions of entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial cognition, entrepreneurial leadership, and …
When we do something as apparently simple as sketching a map, constructing a working diagram, or drawing an imaginary face …
Software development happens in your head. Not in an editor, IDE, or design tool. Youre well educated on how to …
In this completely updated and revised edition of Designing with the Mind in Mind, Jeff Johnson provides you with just …
With the unprecedented advancements in computing power coupled with the societal movement towards inclusive settings, there is no better time …
Preliminaries.- Natural Language Understanding and World Knowledge.- Sources of World Knowledge.- Reasoning for Natural Language Understanding.- Knowledge Base Construction.- Ensuring …
In the sixth Logical Investigation, Husserl defines meaning, objectivity, and knowledge by appealing to "syntheses of fulfilment": each act of …
What is the relationship between our perceptions and reality? What is the relationship between the mind and the body? These …
Learning and reasoning in large, structured, probabilistic worlds is at the heart of artificial intelligence. Markov decision processes have become …
Whether all human languages are fundamentally the same or different has been a subject of debate for ages. This problem …
This book addresses a growing concern as to why Psychology, now more than a hundred years after becoming an independent …
Keller and Shoenfeld’s Principles of Psychology, published in 1950, was written as an introductory text to be used in the …
5th Edition. - The McGraw-Hill Companies, 2013. - 736 p. - Deciphering the link between the human brain and behavior …
This volume examines the scientific basis of reductionist approaches to understanding visual perception. The author makes the provocative argument that …
