Cognitive Science
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Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep?: A Neuroscientific View of the Zombie Brain
$17.95 Add to cartA look at the true nature of the zombie brain
Even if you’ve never seen a zombie movie or television show, you could identify an undead ghoul if you saw one. With their endless wandering, lumbering ga- Author: Verstynen, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 069117315X
- Language: English
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Swearing Is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language
$15.95 Add to cartIn this sparkling debut work of popular science, Emma Byrne examines the latest research to show how swearing can be good for you. She explores every angle of swearing–why we do it, how we do it, and
- Author: Byrne, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 26 2019
- ISBN10: 0393356655
- Language: English
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Adam’s Tongue: How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans
$21.99 Add to cartHow language evolved has been called the hardest problem in science. In Adam’s Tongue, Derek Bickerton–long a leading authority in this field–shows how and why previous attempts to solve that proble
- Author: Bickerton, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0809016478
- Language: English
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The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins
$29.00 Add to cartIn the songs and bubble feeding of humpback whales; in young killer whales learning to knock a seal from an ice floe in the same way their mother does; and in the use of sea sponges by the dolphins of… [more below]
- Author: Whitehead, Hal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 30 2015
- ISBN10: 022632592X
- Language: English
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Cognitive Neuroscience: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartUp to the 1960s, psychology was deeply under the influence of behaviourism, which focused on stimuli and responses, and regarded consideration of what may happen in the mind as unapproachable scientif… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Passingham, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0198786220
- Language: English
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This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works
$19.99 Add to cartDrawn from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, This Explains Everything will revolutionize your understanding of the world.
What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation? This is the
- Series: Edge Question
- Author: Brockman, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 22 2013
- ISBN10: 0062230174
- Language: English
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The Enigma of Reason
$22.00 Add to cart“Brilliant…Timely and necessary.” —Financial Times
“Especially timely as we struggle to make sense of how it is that individuals and communities persist in holding beliefs that have been thoroughly- Author: Mercier, Hugo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: March 04 2019
- ISBN10: 067423782X
- Language: English
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How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
$18.00 Add to cart“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,… [more below]
- Author: Dehaene, Stanislas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0525559906
- Language: English
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This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
$19.99 Add to cartFeaturing a foreword by David Brooks, This Will Make You Smarter presents brilliant–but accessible–ideas to expand every mind.
What scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit? Th
- Series: Edge Question
- Author: Brockman, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 14 2012
- ISBN10: 0062109391
- Language: English
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The Mind-Body Problem
$18.95 Read moreAn introduction to the mind-body problem, covering all the proposed solutions and offering a powerful new one.
Philosophers from Descartes to Kripke have struggled with the glittering prize of modern a
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Westphal, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: September 30 2016
- ISBN10: 0262529564
- Language: English
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On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done
$19.95 Add to cartA look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions-and how this shapes our everyday lives
Why is it hard to text and drive at the same time? How do you resist eating that extra pie- Author: Badre, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0691234701
- Language: English
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Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
$19.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2014 BRAIN PRIZE
From the acclaimed author of Reading in the Brain and How We Learn, a breathtaking look at the new science that can track consciousness deep in the brain How does our br- Author: Dehaene, Stanislas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 30 2014
- ISBN10: 0143126261
- Language: English
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Superminds: The Surprising Power of People and Computers Thinking Together
$21.99 Add to cartFrom the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence comes a fascinating look at the remarkable capacity for intelligence exhibited by groups of people and computers working togeth… [more below]
- Author: Malone, Thomas W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 0316349127
- Language: English
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Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind
$16.95 Add to cartA guide to AI’s thorniest implications that asks: How shall we navigate our brave new world?
We are at a monumental turning point in human history. AI is taking intelligence in new directions. The str- Author: Schneider, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 0691216746
- Language: English
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The Art of the Lie: How the Manipulation of Language Affects Our Minds
$18.00 Add to cartFrom Machiavelli to P. T. Barnum to Donald Trump, many have perfected the art of strategically using language to gain the upper hand, set a tone, change the subject, or influence people’s beliefs and … [more below]
- Author: Danesi, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1633885968
- Language: English
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
$34.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller
Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents save or destroy us? Nick Bostrom lays the fo- Author: Bostrom, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0199678111
- Language: English
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The Book of Minds: How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens
$26.00 Add to cartPopular science writer Philip Ball explores a range of sciences to map our answers to a huge, philosophically rich question: How do we even begin to think about minds that are not human?
Sciences fro- Author: Ball, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 022679587X
- Language: English
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So You Want to Be a Neuroscientist?
$22.95 Add to cartThe pursuit to understand the human brain in all its intricacy is a fascinatingly complex challenge and neuroscience is one of the fastest-growing scientific fields worldwide. There is a wide range of
- Author: Juavinett, Ashley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: December 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0231190891
- Language: English
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Rethinking Intelligence: A Radical New Understanding of Our Human Potential
$29.99 Read moreA genetics expert and professor challenges our understanding of intelligence, explaining what it truly means to be “smart,” why conventional assessments are misleading, and what everyone can do to opt
- Author: Bliss, Rina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063237784
- Language: English
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This Is Your Brain on Depression: Creating Your Path to Getting Better
$9.95 Read moreExpanded version of Dr. Faith’s popular zine
People who have never been depressed have no idea what it’s like. And people who have know all too well how tough depression can be to live with. Dr. Faith … [more below]
- Series: 5-Minute Therapy
- Author: Harper, Faith G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1621062236
- Language: English
