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How We Remember: Brain Mechanisms of Episodic Memory
(MIT Press, 2011)Episodic memory proves essential for daily function, allowing us to remember where we parked the car, what time we walked the dog, or what a friend said earlier. In How We Remember, Michael Hasselmo draws on recent ... -
Anaphora and Language Design
(MIT Press, 2011)Pronouns and anaphors (including reflexives such as himself and herself) may or must depend on antecedents for their interpretation. These dependencies are subject to conditions that prima facie show substantial crosslinguistic ... -
Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Responsibility: The New Language of Global Bioethics and Biolaw
(MIT Press, 2012)Human dignity' has been enshrined in international agreements and national constitutions as a fundamental human right. The World Medical Association calls on physicians to respect human dignity and to discharge their duties ... -
Guardians of Finance: Making Regulators Work for Us
(MIT Press, 2012)This book is about the role played by the Guardians of Finance—the major financial regulatory institutions—in aiding and abetting the global financial crisis. During the ten to fifteen years during which this crisis was ... -
Biological Learning and Control: How the Brain Builds Representations, Predicts Events, and Makes Decisions
(MIT Press, 2012)A novel theoretical framework that describes a possible rationale for the regularity in how we move, how we learn, and how our brain predicts events. In Biological Learning and Control, Reza Shadmehr and Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi ... -
The Cognitive Science of Science: Explanation, Discovery, and Conceptual Change
(MIT Press, 2012)Many disciplines, including philosophy, history, and sociology, have attempted to make sense of how science works. In this book, Paul Thagard examines scientific development from the interdisciplinary perspective of cognitive ... -
Subjective time : the philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience of temporality
(MIT Press, 2014)Our awareness of time and temporal properties is a constant feature of conscious life. Subjective temporality structures and guides every aspect of behavior and cognition, distinguishing memory, perception, and anticipation. ... -
Health Economics
(MIT Press, 2012)A textbook that combines economic concepts with empirical evidence to explain in economic terms how health care institutions and markets function. This book introduces students to the growing research field of health ... -
Collision Course: Endless Growth on a Finite Planet
(MIT Press, 2014)The notion of ever-expanding economic growth has been promoted so relentlessly that "growth" is now entrenched as the natural objective of collective human effort. The public has been convinced that growth is the natural ... -
Why Architects Still Draw
(MIT Press, 2014)Why would an architect reach for a pencil when drawing software and AutoCAD are a click away? Use a ruler when 3D-scanners and GPS devices are close at hand? In Why Architects Still Draw, Paolo Belardi offers an elegant ... -
Governing through goals : sustainable development goals as governance innovation
(MIT Press, 2017)In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Sustainable Development Goals as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Sustainable Development Goals built on and broadened the earlier ... -
Scene Vision: Making Sense of What We See
(MIT Press, 2014)For many years, researchers have studied visual recognition with objects—single, clean, clear, and isolated objects, presented to subjects at the center of the screen. In our real environment, however, objects do not appear ... -
Bleak Houses: Disappointment and Failure in Architecture
(MIT Press, 2014)The usual history of architecture is a grand narrative of soaring monuments and heroic makers. But it is also a false narrative in many ways, rarely acknowledging the personal failures and disappointments of architects. ... -
Economic Dynamics in Discrete Time
(MIT Press, 2014)This book offers a unified, comprehensive, and up-to-date treatment of analytical and numerical tools for solving dynamic economic problems. The focus is on introducing recursive methods -- an important part of every ... -
Single Neuron Studies of the Human Brain: Probing Cognition
(MIT Press, 2014)In the last decade, the synergistic interaction of neurosurgeons, engineers, and neuroscientists, combined with new technologies, has enabled scientists to study the awake, behaving human brain directly. These developments ... -
Music and the Making of Modern Science
(MIT Press, 2014)In the natural science of ancient Greece, music formed the meeting place between numbers and perception, for the next two millennia, Pesic tells us in Music and the Making of Modern Science, "liberal education" connected ... -
Quantum Algorithms via Linear Algebra: A Primer
(MIT Press, 2014)This introduction to quantum algorithms is concise but comprehensive, covering many key algorithms. It is mathematically rigorous but requires minimal background and assumes no knowledge of quantum theory or quantum ... -
Linkography: Unfolding the Design Process
(MIT Press, 2014)This book presents linkography, a method for the notation and analysis of the design process. Developed by Gabriela Goldschmidt in an attempt to clarify designing, linkography documents how designers think, generate ideas, ... -
Brain Structure and Its Origins: in Development and in Evolution of Behavior and the Mind
(MIT Press, 2014)This introduction to the structure of the central nervous system demonstrates that the best way to learn how the brain is put together is to understand something about why. It explains why the brain is put together as it ... -
Neuroscience: A Historical Introduction
(MIT Press, 2014)This introduction to neuroscience is unique in its emphasis on how we know what we know about the structure and function of the nervous system. What are the observations and experiments that have taught us about the brain ...
