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2010.
Papers presented at the 2nd International Conference on Cognitive Science, held from 10-12 December 2006.
Electronic resource
Sage Publications India,
9788132105541
9788132107910
Electronic resource
Advances in cognitive science. Volume 2
Learning and Memory -- Introduction -- Study of Basic Associative Processes Contributes to Our Understanding in Cognitive Science / Minimizing Cognitive Load in Map-based Navigation: The Role of Landmarks / Quantitative and Qualitative Differences between Implicit and Explicit Sequence Learning / Behavioural Study of the Effect of Trial and Error versus Supervised Learning of Visuo-motor Skills / ACE (Actor-Critic-Explorer) Paradigm for Reinforcement Learning in Basal Ganglia: Highlighting the Role of the Indirect Pathway / Perception and Attention -- Introduction -- Peripersonal Space Representation in Humans: Proprieties Functions, and Plasticity / Neurophysiological Correlate and Model of Reflexive Spatial Attention / Effects of Emotions on Selective Attention and Control / Modelling Neuropsychological Deficits with a Spiking Neural Network / Time Perception -- Introduction -- Continuity of Subjective Experience Across Eye Movements: Temporal Antedating Following Small, Large, and Sequential Saccades / Duration Illusions and What They Tell us about the Brain / Implicit Timing / Localization and Dynamics of Cerebral Activations Involved in Time Estimation: Studies Combining PET, fMRI, and EEG Data / Language, Cognition, and Development -- Introduction -- Effects of Remediation on Auditory Temporal Processing in Dyslexia: An Overview / Brain Networks of Attention and Preparing for School Subjects
Srinivasaan, Narayanan.
Kar, Bhoomika R.
Pandey, Janak.
John M. Holden -- Cees van Leeuwen -- Arnaud Destrebecqz -- Kenji Doya -- V. Srinivasa Chakravarthy -- Andrea Serino -- Xinmiao Peng -- Neha Khetrapal -- Gustavo Deco -- Kielan Yarrow -- David M. Eagleman -- Siwei Liu -- Viviane Pouthas -- Malini Shukla -- Bhoomika R. Kar.
edited by Narayanan Srinivasan, Bhoomika R. Kar, Janak Pandey.
2010
Advances in cognitive science. Volume 2
c2009.
Book
Vintage Books,
9780307389312
Book
What's next? : dispatches on the future of science : original essays from a new generation of scientists
Will we decamp for the Northern Rim / Mirror neurons : are we ethical by nature? / How to enhance human beings / Our place in an unnatural universe / Just what is dark energy? / Development of the social brain in adolescence / Watching minds interact / What makes big ideas stocky? / Fruit flies of the moral mind / How does our language shape the way we think / Memory enhancement, memory erasure : the future of our past / The vital importance of imagination / Brain time / Out of our minds : how did Homo sapiens come down from the trees, and why did no one follow? / The aliens among us / How did the social insects become social? / Extinction and the evolution of humankind / Why hasn't specialization led to the Balkanization of science?
Brockman, Max.
Laurence C. Smith -- Christian Keysers -- Nick Bostrom -- Sean Carroll -- Stephon H.S. Alexander -- Sarah-Jayne Blakemore -- Jason P. Mitchell -- Matthew D. Lieberman -- Joshua D. Greene -- Lera Boroditsky -- Sam Cooke -- Deena Skolnick Weisberg -- David M. Eagleman -- Vanessa Woods and Brain Hare -- Nathan Wolfe -- Seirian Sumner -- Katerina Harvati -- Gavin Schmidt.
edited by Max Brockman.
2009
What's next? : dispatches on the future of science : original essays from a new generation of scientists
2012.
Presents fictional and non-fictional stories written by American authors that discuss topics in science and nature.
Book
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
9780547799537
Book
The best American science and nature writing 2012
Best American series.
Bacteria/microorganisms: The teeming metropolis of you / Animals: The long, curious, extravagant evolution of feathers / Humans (the good): The scent of your thoughts / Humans (the bad): The feedback loop / Society and environment: Crush point / Technology: Test-tube burgers / Mind vs. machine
Ariely, Dan.
Folger, Tim.
Brendan Buhler. Our body the ecosystem / Virginia Hughes. The peanut puzzle / Jerome Groopman -- Carl Zimmer. How to hatch a dinosaur / Thomas Hayden. Faster, higher, squeakier / Michael Behar. The wipeout gene / Bijal P. Trivedi. Deep intellect / Sy Montgomery. Ants & the art of war / Mark W. Moffett -- Deborah Blum. Sleeping with the enemy / Elizabeth Kolbert. The touchy-feely (but totally scientific!) methods of Wallace J. Nichols / Michael Roberts -- Thomas Goetz. What you don't know can kill you / Jason Daley. Beautiful brains / David Dobbs. The brain on trial / David Eagleman -- John Seabrook. Ill wind / David Kirby. The city solution / Robert Kunzig -- Michael Specter. Mad science / Mark McClusky. Dream machine / Rivka Galchen. The crypto-currency / Joshua Davis -- Brian Christian.
edited and with an introduction by Dan Ariely ; Tim Folger, series editor.
2012
The best American science and nature writing 2012
©2010.
1st ed.
"Edge.org presents 125 of today's leading thinkers ... [responding to the question,] 'What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you
Book
Harper Perennial,
9780061899676
Book
This will change everything : ideas that will shape the future
Ideas that will shape the future
Preface: The Edge question -- Introduction / Evolution changes everything / DNA : writing the software of life / A change in who we are / The robotic moment / The brain-machine interface / Breaking the species barrier / Slippery expectations / The full flourishing of solar technology / Personal genomics--or maybe not / Our genes are not our fate / A forebrain for the world mind / Future as present : a final experiment / But we shall all be changed / The credit crunch for materialism / The laptop quantum computer / Undo the present ; recall the past / Rounding an endless vicious circle / The idea of negative and iatrogenic science / The feeling that things will get worse / Homesteading in Hilbert space / Revelation / The discovery of intelligent life from somewhere else / A cure for humankind's existential loneliness / AI and intellectual mastery / Avoiding doomsday / Escaping the Gravity Well / Synthetic biology with interplanetary reach / Life (or not) on Mars / A separate origin for life / Shadow biosphere / Laboratory earth colonies / Interstellar viruses / Computers are the new microscopes / Silicon immortality : downloading consciousness into computers
The implementation of life in engineered materials / Decoding the brain / Cheap cryonic suspension of brains / Superintelligence / Becoming robotic / The synchronization of brains / Thinking small : understanding the brain / Controlling the brain's plasticity / Never-ending childhood / The ebb of memory / Artificial self-replicating meme machines / Malthusian information famine / Reading minds / True lie detection / Radiotelepathy : direct communication from brain to brain / Little changes make the biggest difference / Neuronally expressed messages / A new kind of mind / The age of reputation / Cracking open the lockbox of talent / Culture / Molecular manufacturing / Resizing ourselves / The actual, the possible, and the unimaginable / Computing the embryo / Homo evolutis / The open universe / Living to a hundred and fifty / Mastering death / No more time decay / West Antarctica and seven other sleeping giants / Conserving the climate : will Greenland's melting ice the deal? / Climate will change everything / Molecular manufacturing and climate change / The mastery of climate / The use of nuclear weapons against a civilian population
Deployment of a significant rogue nuclear device / Accidental nuclear war / The breakdown of all computers / The growing perception of a clash between safety and liberty / Adopting rationality and sustainability / Fusion expectations / Green oil / Attempts at geoengineering / Why don't running shoes biodegrade? / The shift from harvesting to manufacturing energy / The anthroposphere / At last : technology will change education / Inexpensive customizable interactive e-texts for worldwide use / On basketball and science camps / A web-empowered revolution in teaching / Wisdom reborn / Tracks and clusters / The mobile phone / Energy and economics : the road to civilization 1.0 / Undoing Babylon / Soul travel for selfless beings / Inside out : the epistemology of everything / Changes in the changers / Neurocosmetics / Neurophenomics + targeted stimulation = psychological optimization? / Celebratory self-reengineering / A different kind of male subjectivity / Hidden persuaders '09 / A lively gamete market / Immortal cognition, boundless happiness / A farewell to harm / God need not actually exist to have evolved / Proof of the Riemann hypothesis / The reality of time / The existence of additional spacetime dimensions / Black holes : the ultimate game changer?
Better measurements / We are learning to make phenotypes / The next step in human health care? / Broadening the spectrum of infectious causation / Biological markers for mental illness / Recognizing that the body is not a machine / The organism itself as the emergent meaning / Faster evolution means more ethnic differences / Africa / Epistemology will change the world / Social media literacy / The decline of text / The end of analytic science / Coordinated computational power will change science / Carniculture / Exploitability / Post-rational economic man / Nothing will change everything / Beyond Boolean logic, digital manipulations, and numerical evaluations / People who can intuit in six dimensions / Massive technological failure / Happiness / Our brave new map of the world / The unmasking of true human nature / And if the big change doesn't arrive? / "Everything" has already changed! / The slow-motion revolution / Why human nature will rebel
Brockman, John, 1941-
by Daniel C. Dennett -- Scott Sampson -- J. Craig Venter -- PZ Myers -- Sherry Turkle -- James Geary -- Richard Dawkins -- Corey S. Powell -- Ian McEwan -- Steven Pinker -- Dean Ornish -- W. Daniel Hillis -- Ernst Pöppel -- Frank J. Tipler -- Rupert Sheldrake -- Donald D. Hoffman -- Seth Lloyd -- Alan Alda -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb -- Brian Eno -- Frank Wilczek -- Stefano Boeri -- Douglas Rushkoff -- Paul Saffo -- John Tooby and Leda Cosmides -- Alexander Vilenkin -- David Dalrymple -- Dimitar Sasselov -- Rodney Brooks -- Robert Shapiro -- Paul Davies -- John Gottman -- George Dyson -- Terrence Sejnowski -- David Eagleman --
Neil Gershenfeld -- Gary Marcus -- Bart Kosko -- Nick Bostrom -- Gregory Paul -- Jamshed Bharucha -- Irene Pepperberg -- Leo M. Chalupa -- Alison Gopnik -- Kevin Slavin -- Susan Blackmore -- Charles Seife -- Kenneth W. Ford -- Sam Harris -- Freeman Dyson -- Barry C. Smith -- Peter Schwartz -- Kevin Kelly -- Gloria Orrigi -- Howard Gardner -- Timothy Taylor -- Ed Regis -- Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster -- Marc D. Hauser -- Lewis Wolpert -- Juan Enriquez -- Stuart Kauffman -- Gregory Benford -- Marcelo Gleiser -- Emanuel Derman -- Laurence C. Smith -- Stephen H. Schneider -- William Calvin -- Eric Drexler -- Stewart Brand -- Lawrence Krauss --
Gerald Holton -- Max Tegmark -- Anton Zeilinger -- Dan Sperber -- Patrick Bateson -- Roger Highfield -- Alun Anderson -- Oliver Morton -- Daniel Goleman -- Andrian Kreye -- Nicholas A. Christakis -- Haim Harari -- David G. Myers -- Stephon H. Alexander -- Chris Anderson -- Roger C. Schank -- David Gelernter -- Keith Devlin -- Michael Shermer -- Daniel L. Everett -- Thomas Metzinger -- Tor Nørretranders -- A. Garrett Lisi -- Marcel Kinsbourne -- Brian Knutson -- Andy Clark -- Tino Sehgal -- Helen Fisher -- Henry Harpending -- Marco Iacoboni -- Karl Sabbagh -- Jesse Bering -- Clifford A. Pickover -- Lee Smolin -- Gino Segrè -- Paul J. Steinhardt --
Gregory Cochran -- Mark Pagel -- Ian Wilmut -- Paul Ewald -- Eric Kandel -- Randolph Nesse -- Brian Goodwin -- Jonathan Haidt -- James J. O'Donnell -- Lera Boroditsky -- Howard Rheingold -- Marti Hearst -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- Lisa Randall -- Austin Dacey -- David M. Buss -- David Berreby -- Richard Foreman -- Verna Huber-Dyson -- Robert Sapolsky -- David Bodanis -- Betsy Devine -- Christine Finn -- Aubrey de Grey -- Carlo Rovelli -- Kai Krause -- Robert R. Provine -- Nicholas Humphrey.
edited by John Brockman.
2010
This will change everything : ideas that will shape the future
©2011.
1st ed.
Every year, Edge.org's World Question Center poses a new question to be answered by a group of luminary thinkers--philosophers, scientists, histo
Book
Harper Perennial,
9780062020444
Book
Is the Internet changing the way you think? : the net's impact on our minds and future
www.edge.org.
the edge question / the dawn of entanglement / The bookless library / The invisible college / Net gain / Let us calculate / The waking dream / To dream the waking dream in new ways / Tweet me nice / The dazed state / What's missing here? / Power corrupts / The rediscovery of fire / The rise of social media is really a reprise / The internet and the loss of tranquility / The greatest detractor to serious thinking since television / The large information Collider, BDTs, and gravity holidays on Tuesdays / The web helps us see what isn't there / Knowledge without, focus within, people everywhere / A level playing field / Move aside, sex / Rivaling Gutenberg / The shoulders of giants / Brain candy and bad mathematics / Publications can perish / Will the great leveler destroy diversity of thought? / We have become hunter-gatherers of images and information / The human texture of information / Not at all / This is your brain on internet / The sculpting of human thought / What kind of a dumb question is that? / Public dreaming / The age of (quantum) information? / Edge, A to Z (pars pro toto)
The degradation of predictability -- and knowledge / Calling you on your crap / How I think about how I think / I am not exactly a thinking person -- I am a poet / Kayaks versus canoes / The upload has begun / Hell if I know / What I notice / It's not what you know, it's what you can find out / When I'm on the net, I start to think / The internet has become boring / The dumb butler / Finding stuff remains a challenge / Attention, crap detection, and network awareness / Information metabolism / Ctrl + click to follow link / Replacing experience with facsimile / Outsourcing the mind / A prehistorian's perspective / The fourth phase of homo sapiens / Transience is now permanence / A return to the Scarlet-Letter Savanna / Take love / Internet mating strategies / Internet society / Don't ring me / A thousand hours a year / Thinking like the internet, thinking like biology / The internet makes me think in the present tense / Social prosthetic systems / Evolving a global brain / Search and emergence
My fingers have become part of my brain / A mirror for the world's foibles / A completely new form of sense / By changing my behavior / There is no new self / I once was lost but now am found, or How to navigate in the chartroom of memory / The greatest pornographer / My sixth sense / The internet reifies a logic already there / Instant gratification / The internet as social amplifier / Navigating physical and virtual lives / Not everything or everyone in the world has a home on the internet / Ephemera and back again / What do we think about? Who gets to do the thinking? / The internet is a cultural form / Wallowing in the world of knowledge / One's guild / Trusting nothing, debate everything / Harmful one-liners, an ocean of facts, and rewired minds / What other people think / The extinction of experience / The collective nature of human intelligence / Six ways the internet may save civilization / Better neuroxing through the internet / A gift to conspirators and terrorists everywhere / The ant hill / I can make a difference because of the internet
Go virtual, young man / My internet mind / "If you have cancer, don't go on the internet" / Incomprehensible visitors from the technological future / "Go native" / The maximization of neoteny / Wisdom of the crowd / Weirdness of the crowd / The synchronization of minds / My judgment enhancer / Speed plus mobs / Repetition, availability, and truth / The armed truce / More efficient, but to what end? / I have outsourced my memory / The new balance : more processing, less memorization / The enemy of insight? / The joy of just-enoughness / The rise of internet prosthetic brains and soliton personhood / Immortality / A third replicator / Bells and smoke / Dare, care, and share / Getting close / A miracle and a curse / "The plural of anecdote is not data" / Collective action and the global commons / Informed, tightfisted, and synthetic / Massive collaboration / We know less about thinking than we think / An impenetrable machine / A question without an answer / Conceptual compasses for deeper generalists / Art making going rural / The cat is out of the bag / Everyone is an expert
Pioneering insights / Thinking in the Amazon / The virtualization of the universe / Information-provoked attention deficit disorder / Present versus future self / I am realizing how nice people can be / My perception of time / The rotating problem, or How I learned to accelerate my mental clock / I must confess to being perplexed / Taking on the habits of the scientist, the investigative reporter, and the media critic / Thinking as therapy in a world of too much / Internet is wind / Of knowledge, content, place, and space / The power of conversation / A real-time perpetual time capsule / Getting from Jack Kerouac to the pentatonic scale / A vehicle for large-scale education about the human mind / Sandbars and portages / No one is immune to the storms that shake the world / Dowsing through data / Bleat for yourself
Brockman, John, 1941-
by John Brockman -- by W. Daniel Hillis -- Nicholas Carr -- Clay Shirky -- Richard Dawkins -- Frank Wilczek -- Kevin Kelly -- Richard Saul Wurman -- Ian Gold and Joel Gold -- Richard Foreman -- Matthew Ritchie -- Daniel C. Dennett -- Chris Anderson -- June Cohen -- Noga Arikha -- Leo Chalupa -- Paul Kedrosky -- Eric Drexler -- David Dalrymple -- Martin Rees -- Seth Lloyd -- John Tooby -- William Calvin -- Mark Pagel -- Robert Shapiro -- Frank J. Tipler -- Lee Smolin -- Jon Kleinberg -- Steven Pinker -- Terrence Sejnowski -- Donald Hoffman -- Andy Clark -- Thomas Metzinger -- Anton Zeilinger -- Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Nassim N. Taleb -- Sean Carroll -- Lera Boroditsky -- Jonas Mekas -- George Dyson -- Sam Harris -- Gregory Paul -- Brian Eno -- Marissa Mayer -- Ai Weiwei -- Andrian Kreye -- Joshua Greene -- Philip Campbell -- Howard Rheingold -- Esther Dyson -- George Church -- Eric Fischl and April Gornik -- Gerd Gigerenzer -- Timothy Taylor -- Scott Atran -- Douglas Coupland -- Jesse Bering -- Helen Fisher -- David M. Buss -- Robert R. Provine -- Aubrey De Grey -- Simon Baron-Cohen -- Nigel Goldenfeld -- Douglas Rushkoff -- Stephen M. Kosslyn -- W. Tecumseh Fitch -- Rudy Rucker.
James O'Donnell -- John Markoff -- Terence Koh -- Seirian Sumner -- Nicholas A. Christakis -- Neri Oxman -- Alun Anderson -- Albert-Laśzló Barabási -- Tom McCarthy -- Peter H. Diamandis -- David G. Myers -- Linda Stone -- Barry C. Smith -- Chris Dibona -- Evgeny Morozov -- Virginia Heffernan -- Peter Schwartz -- Stewart Brand -- Jason Calacanis -- Haim Harari -- Marti Hearst -- Scott D. Sampson -- Matt Ridley -- David Eagleman -- Samuel Barondes -- Marcel Kinsbourne -- Eva Wisten -- Bruce Hood.
Eric Weinstein -- Thomas A. Bass -- Karl Sabbagh -- Alison Gopnik -- Howard Gardner -- Jaron Lanier -- Keith Devlin -- Robert Sapolsky -- Jamshed Bharucha -- Geoffrey Miller -- Alan Alda -- Daniel Haun -- Irene M. Pepperberg -- Emanuel Derman -- Charles Seife -- Fiery Cushman -- Anthony Aguirre -- Judith Rich Harris -- Clifford Pickover -- Juan Enriquez -- Susan Blackmore -- Christine Finn -- Tor Nørretranders -- Stuart Pimm -- Ed Regis -- Lisa Randall -- Giulio Boccaletti -- Laurence C. Smith -- Andrew Lih -- Steven R. Quartz -- Emily Pronin -- Tony Conrad -- Paul W. Ewald -- James Croak -- Max Tegmark -- Roger Schank.
Neil Gershenfeld -- Daniel L. Everett -- David Gelernter -- Rodney Brooks -- Brian Knutson -- Paul Bloom -- Marina Abramović -- Stanislas Dehaene -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- Yochai Benkler -- Ernst Pöppel -- Stefano Boeri -- Galia Solomonoff -- Gloria Origgi -- Nick Bilton -- Jesse Dylan -- Mahzarin R. Banaji -- Tim O'Reilly -- Raqs Media Collective -- Xeni Jardin -- Larry Sanger.
edited by John Brockman.
2011
Is the Internet changing the way you think? : the net's impact on our minds and future
![Cover image for ScienceNow. How does the brain work? [videorecording].](https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?type=xw12&client=jlibcatcons&upc=841887013642&oclc=&isbn=9781608833610&issn=/MC.GIF "Cover image for ScienceNow. How does the brain work? [videorecording].")
[2011]
Host Neil deGrasse Tyson will tackle one of science's major challenges in each episode, framed as a simple question that ordinary people wonder a
DVD
JLC Title 245h
[videorecording].
PBS,
9781608833610
DVD
ScienceNow. How does the brain work? [videorecording].
How does the brain work?
Tyson, Neil deGrasse.
PBS Video.
2011
2010
ScienceNow. How does the brain work? [videorecording].
c2012.
1st U.S. ed.
Many of the questions children ask in the course of growing up can stump even the best educated adult: Why can't l tickle myself? Are we all rela
Book
Ecco,
9780062223227
Book
Big questions from little people--- and simple answers from great minds
Big questions from little people-- & simple answers from great minds
Harris, Gemma Elwin.
compiled by Gemma Elwin Harris.
2012
Big questions from little people--- and simple answers from great minds
2010.
"What is the instantaneous position of a moving object from the point of view of the observer? How does a tennis player know when and where to pl
Electronic resource
Cambridge University Press,
9780511749803
Electronic resource
Space and time in perception and action
Nijhawan, Romi.
Khurana, Beena.
edited by Romi Nijhawan, Beena Khurana.
2010
Space and time in perception and action
2008-
Papers presented at the International Conference on Cognitive Science, held at Allahabad during 16-18 December 2004.
Electronic resource
SAGE Publications,
9788132100157
Electronic resource
Advances in cognitive science
Srinivasan, Narayanan.
Gupta, A. K.
Pandey, Janak, 1945-
edited by Narayanan Srinivasan, A.K. Gupta, Janak Pandey.
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Advances in cognitive science
©2012.
1st ed.
This Will Make You Smarter presents brilliant but accessible ideas to expand every mind. What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognit
Book
Harper Perennial,
9780062109392
Book
This will make you smarter : new scientific concepts to improve your thinking
Brockman, John, 1941-
edited by John Brockman ; foreword by David Brooks.
2012
This will make you smarter : new scientific concepts to improve your thinking
2013.
1st ed.
"Drawn from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, This Explains Everything presents 150 of the most deep, surprising, and brilliant explanations
Book
Harper Perennial,
9780062230171
Book
This explains everything : deep, beautiful, and elegant theories of how the world works
Brockman, John, 1941-
edited by John Brockman.
2013
This explains everything : deep, beautiful, and elegant theories of how the world works
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