Cognitive Science

If reason is what makes us human, then why do we humans often behave so irrationally? Taking us from desert ants to Aristotle, cognitive psychologi...

A GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST, NEW STATESMAN, FINANCIAL TIMES AND BLOOMBERG BOOK OF THE YEAR'I loved it.' MICHAEL POLLAN'Fascinating.' FINANCIAL TIMES'Awe-...

In this volume, questions at the intersection of mental representations and their verbal and non-verbal means of expression are discussed, using em...

Starting from the idea that the main hindrance to a great acting performance is self-consciousness on the part of the performer, My Character Would...

What, exactly, is leadership? Leadership is about motivating a group of people to achieve a common goal. Ever since the dawn of the field of leader...

A new speculative ontology of aesthetics In Aesthesis and Perceptronium, Alexander Wilson presents a theory of materialist and posthumanist aesthet...

A new speculative ontology of aesthetics In Aesthesis and Perceptronium, Alexander Wilson presents a theory of materialist and posthumanist aesthet...

What neurobiology and artificial intelligence tell us about how the brain builds itself How does a neural network become a brain? While neurobiolog...

The notion that human thought is structured like a language, with a precise syntax and semantics, has been pivotal in recent philosophy of mind. Ye...

In How to Explain Behavior: A Critical Review and New Approach, Sam S. Rakover proposes a critical review of explanation models (procedures); prese...

In How to Explain Behavior: A Critical Review and New Approach, Sam S. Rakover proposes a critical review of explanation models (procedures); prese...

Why your political beliefs are influenced by the language you speakVoicing Politics brings together the latest findings from psychology and politic...

What neurobiology and artificial intelligence tell us about how the brain builds itself How does a neural network become a brain? While neurobiolog...

What do infants know? How does the knowledge that they begin with prepare them for learning about the particular physical, cultural, and social wor...

In Metaphors of Eucharistic Presence: Language, Cognition, and the Body and Blood of Christ, Stephen R. Shaver brings together the fields of cognit...

This book examines the impact of ubiquitous information technology, with discussions about what makes these technologies so addictive, and their ef...

In the course of the eighteenth century, understanding human cognitive life came to be construed as something to be explored in terms of the physio...

How do brains make minds? Paul Thagard presents a unified, brain-based theory of cognition and emotion with applications to the most complex kinds ...