Clark, Andy
Summary: "A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build the world, learn from it, and sometimes deceive themselves For as long as we've studied the mind, we've believed that our senses determine what our mind perceives. But as our understanding of neuroscience and psychology has advanced in the last few decades, a new view has emerged that has proven to be both provocative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2023
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Summary: Are you more likely to become a professional footballer if your surname is Ball? How can you be one hundred per cent sure you will win a bet? Why did so many Pompeiians stay put while Mount Vesuvius was erupting? How do you prevent a nuclear war? Ever since the dawn of human civilisation, we have been trying to make predictions about what's in store for us. We do this on a personal level, so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.49 YATEaster, Michael
Summary: "Michael Easter, author of The Comfort Crisis and one of the world's leading experts on behavior change, shows that the problem isn't you. The problem is your scarcity mindset, left over from our ancient ancestors. They had to constantly seek and consume to survive because vital survival tools like food, material goods, information, and power were scarce and hard to find. But with our modern...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2023
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Summary: "In today's technological society, with an unprecedented amount of information at our fingertips, learning plays a more central role than ever. In How We Learn, Stanislas Dehaene decodes its biological mechanisms, delving into the neuronal, synaptic, and molecular processes taking place in the brain. He explains why youth is such a sensitive period, during which brain plasticity is maximal, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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Summary: In this memoir, preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel C. Dennett reflects on his amazing career and lifelong scientific fascinations, and provides a master class in the dominant themes of twentieth-century philosophy and cognitive science--including language, evolution, logic, religion, and AI--revealing both the mistakes and breakthroughs that shaped his theories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Daniel C. Dennett, preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist, has spent his career considering the thorniest, most fundamental mysteries of the mind. Do we have free will? What is consciousness and how did it come about? What distinguishes human minds from the minds of animals? Dennett's answers have profoundly shaped our age of philosophical thought. In I've Been Thinking, he reflects on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2023
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Summary: "Humor, like pornography, is famously difficult to define. We know it when we see it, but is there any way to figure out what we really find funny? In this fascinating investigation into the science of humor and laughter, neuroscientist Scott Weems uncovers what's happening in our heads when we giggle, guffaw, or double over with laughter. Beginning with the premise that humor arises from inner...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.43 WEEAhuvia, Aaron
Summary: An "exciting and engaging" investigation (Jonah Berger) of the secret, tangled emotional relationships people have with things--drawing on cutting-edge findings from the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and marketing. Books, baseball cards, ceramic figurines, art, iPhones, clothing, cars, music, dolls, furniture, and even nature itself. If you're like most people, at some point in your life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.487 AHUGardner, Howard.
Summary: An expert in the field of cognitive science explains the development of a child's ability to interpret the world and offers new teaching methods based on current research in early learning.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BasicBooks 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370.152 GARShermer, Michael.
Summary: Shermer demonstrates how our brains selectively assess data in an attempt to confirm the conclusions (beliefs) we've already reached. Drawing on evolution, cognitive science, and neuroscience, he considers not only supernatural beliefs but political and economic ones as well.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.4 SHEBellah, Robert Neelly
Summary: Examines the history of religion from early ancestors by using biology, cognitive science, and evolutionary psychology, and follows the expansion of religion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2011
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Summary: "A graphic novel adaptation of Pascal Boyer's writings that examine religion through the lenses of cognitive science, anthropology, psychology, and evolutionary biology"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Mundi 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 200 BEHNunez, Paul L.
Summary: This book explains in layperson's terms a new approach to studying consciousness based on a partnership between neuroscientists and complexity scientists. The author, a physicist turned neuroscientist, outlines essential features of this partnership. The new science goes well beyond traditional cognitive science and simple neural networks, which are often the focus in artificial intelligence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Cognitive science has provided exciting breakthroughs in child development. This video demonstrates how children are learning much more, at much earlier ages than many experts thought possible-and that learning is rooted in emotion as well as logic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Broks, Paul
Summary: "When celebrated neuropsychologist Paul Broks's wife died of cancer, it sparked a journey of grief and reflection that traced a lifelong attempt to understand how the brain gives rise to the soul. The result of that journey is a gorgeous, evocative meditation on fate, death, consciousness, and what it means to be human. The Darker the Night, The Brighter the Stars weaves a scientist's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2018