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Evolution and Cognition Série de Livres électroniques

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  • The Shape of Thought

    How Mental Adaptations Evolve

    Collections series Evolution and Cognition
    This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF version on Oxford Academic and is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence. The Shape of Thought: How Mental Adaptations Evolve presents a road map for an evolutionary psychology of the twenty-first century. It brings together theory from biology and ... En savoir plus

    $40.99 CAD

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  • Reading in the Brain

    The New Science of How We Read

    A renowned cognitive neuroscientist?s fascinating and highly informative account of how the brain acquires readingHow can a few black marks on a white page evoke an entire universe of sounds and meanings? In this riveting investigation, Stanislas Dehaene provides an accessible account of the brain circuitry of reading and explores what he calls the ?reading paradox?: Our cortex is the product of ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • How We Learn

    Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now

    **“There are words that are so familiar they obscure rather than illuminate the thing they mean, and ‘learning’ is such a word. It seems so ordinary, everyone does it. Actually it’s more of a black box, which Dehaene cracks open to reveal the awesome secrets within.”—The New York Times Book ReviewAn illuminating dive into the latest science on our brain's remarkable learning abilities and the ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • Surfing Uncertainty

    Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind

    par Andy Clark ...
    How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel, create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all these non-material mental states, including consciousness itself? An answer to this central question of our existence is emerging at the busy intersection of neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence, and ... En savoir plus

    $21.59 CAD

  • Consciousness and the Social Brain

    What is consciousness and how can a brain, a mere collection of neurons, create it? In Consciousness and the Social Brain, Princeton neuroscientist Michael Graziano lays out an audacious new theory to account for the deepest mystery of them all. The human brain has evolved a complex circuitry that allows it to be socially intelligent. This social machinery has only just begun to be studied in ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain

    The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain

    "A work of enormous breadth, likely to pleasantly surprise both general readers and experts."—New York Times Book ReviewThis revolutionary book provides fresh answers to long-standing questions of human origins and consciousness. Drawing on his breakthrough research in comparative neuroscience, Terrence Deacon offers a wealth of insights into the significance of symbolic thinking: from the co ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Four Realms of Existence

    A New Theory of Being Human

    One of the world’s leading experts on mind and brain takes us on an expedition that reveals a new view of what makes us who we are.Humans have long thought of their bodies and minds as separate spheres of existence. The body is physical—the source of aches and pains. But the mind is mental; it perceives, remembers, believes, feels, and imagines. Although modern science has largely eliminated this ... En savoir plus

    $28.19 CAD

  • Cognitive Gadgets

    The Cultural Evolution of Thinking

    par Cecilia Heyes ...
    “This is an important book and likely the most thoughtful of the year in the social sciences… Highly recommended, it is likely to prove one of the most thought-provoking books of the year.”—Tyler Cowen, Marginal RevolutionHow did human minds become so different from those of other animals? What accounts for our capacity to understand the way the physical world works, to think ourselves into the ... En savoir plus

    $39.99 CAD

  • Handbook of Cognitive Science

    An Embodied Approach

    Modifié par Paco Calvo, Toni Gomila ...
    Collections series Perspectives on Cognitive Science
    The Handbook of Cognitive Science provides an overview of recent developments in cognition research, relying upon non-classical approaches. Cognition is explained as the continuous interplay between brain, body, and environment, without relying on classical notions of computations and representation to explain cognition. The handbook serves as a valuable companion for readers interested in ... En savoir plus

    $159.99 CAD

  • From Molecule to Metaphor

    A Neural Theory of Language

    par Jerome Feldman ...
    In From Molecule to Metaphor, Jerome Feldman proposes a theory of language and thought that treats language not as an abstract symbol system but as a human biological ability that can be studied as a function of the brain, as vision and motor control are studied. This theory, he writes, is a "bridging theory" that works from extensive knowledge at two ends of a causal chain to explicate the links ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Problem Solving

    Perspectives from Cognition and Neuroscience

    The way that we assess and overcome problems is an essential part of everyday life. Problem Solving provides a clear introduction to the underlying mental processes involved in solving problems. Drawing on research from cognitive psychology and neuroscience, it examines the methods and techniques used by both novices and experts in familiar and unfamiliar situations.This edition has been ... En savoir plus

    $104.99 CAD

  • What Babies Know

    Core Knowledge and Composition Volume 1

    Collections series Oxford Cognitive Development
    What do infants know? How does the knowledge that they begin with prepare them for learning about the particular physical, cultural, and social world in which they live? Answers to this question shed light not only on infants but on children and adults in all cultures, because the core knowledge possessed by infants never goes away. Instead, it underlies the unspoken, common sense knowledge of ... En savoir plus

    $70.99 CAD