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    • Turing’s Vision: The Birth of Computer Science 

      Bernhardt, Chris (MIT Press, 2016)
      Turing's fascinating and remarkable theory, which now forms the basis of computer science, explained for the general reader. In 1936, when he was just twenty-four years old, Alan Turing wrote a remarkable paper in which ...

    • Building and Interpreting Possession Sentences 

      Myler, Neil (MIT Press, 2016)
      A wide-ranging generative analysis of the typology of possession sentences, solving long-standing puzzles in their syntax and semantics. A major question for linguistic theory concerns how the structure of sentences relates ...

    • The World Trade System: Trends and Challenges 

      Bhagwati, Jagdish N.; Krishna, Pravin; Panagariya, Arvind (MIT Press, 2016)
      When the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) metamorphosed into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1994, it seemed that the third pillar of the international economic superstructure was finally in place. And ...

    • Case Studies in Neural Data Analysis: A Guide for the Practicing Neuroscientist 

      Kramer, Mark A.; Eden, Uri T. (MIT Press, 2016)
      As neural data becomes increasingly complex, neuroscientists now require skills in computer programming, statistics, and data analysis. This book teaches practical neural data analysis techniques by presenting example ...

    • Changing minds changing tools : from learning theory to language acquisition to language change 

      Kapatsinski, Vsevolod (MIT Press, 2018)
      By the time you were just a year old, you had learned which sound distinctions matter and which do not. From the constant streams of acoustic and visual input, you had extracted a few acoustic forms and linked them to ...

    • System: The Shaping of Modern Knowledge 

      Siskin, Clifford (MIT Press, 2016)
      The role that "system" has played in the shaping and reshaping of modern knowledge, from Galileo and Newton to our own "computational universe." A system can describe what we see (the solar system), operate a computer ...

    • Productivity and Reuse in Language : A Theory of Linguistic Computation and Storage 

      O’Donnell, Timothy J. (MIT Press, 2016)
      Language allows us to express and comprehend an unbounded number of thoughts. This fundamental and much-celebrated property is made possible by a division of labour between a large inventory of stored items (e.g. affixes, ...

    • Computational Models of Referring: A Study in Cognitive Science 

      Deemter, Kees Van (MIT Press, 2016)
      To communicate, speakers need to make it clear what they are talking about. The act of referring, which anchors words to things, is a fundamental aspect of language. In this book, Kees van Deemter shows that computational ...

    • Open MIND : philosophy and the mind sciences in the 21st century 

      Metzinger, Thomas; Windt, Jennifer Michelle (MIT Press, 2016)
      This is an edited collection of 39 original papers and as many commentaries and replies. The target papers and replies were written by senior members of the MIND Group, while all commentaries were written by junior group ...

    • The Rationality Quotient: Toward a Test of Rational Thinking 

      Stanovich, Keith E.; West, Richard F.; Toplak, Maggie E. (MIT Press, 2016)
      Why are we surprised when smart people act foolishly? Smart people do foolish things all the time. Misjudgments and bad decisions by highly educated bankers and money managers, for example, brought us the financial crisis ...

    • The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World 

      Gazzaley, Adam; Rosen, Larry D. (MIT Press, 2016)
      Most of us will freely admit that we are obsessed with our devices. We pride ourselves on our ability to multitask -- read work email, reply to a text, check Facebook, watch a video clip. Talk on the phone, send a text, ...

    • Impossible Languages 

      Moro, Andrea (MIT Press, 2016)
      Can there be such a thing as an impossible human language? A biologist could describe an impossible animal as one that goes against the physical laws of nature (entropy, for example, or gravity). Are there any such laws ...

    • Macroeconomics in Times of Liquidity Crises: Searching for Economic Essentials 

      Calvo, Guillermo A. (MIT Press, 2016)
      Since the subprime mortgage crisis that began in 2007, advanced economies have felt a nagging sense of insecurity. In parallel, the profession has witnessed phenomena that are alien to mainstream macroeconomic models. ...

    • Multicellularity: Origins and Evolution 

      Niklas, Karl J.; Newman, Stuart A.; Bonner, John T. (MIT Press, 2016)
      The evolution of multicellularity raises questions regarding genomic and developmental commonalities and discordances, selective advantages and disadvantages, physical determinants of development, and the origins of ...

    • Connectedness and Contagion: Protecting the Financial System from Panics 

      Scott, Hal S. (MIT Press, 2016)
      The Dodd–Frank Act of 2010 was intended to reform financial policies in order to prevent another massive crisis such as the financial meltdown of 2008. Dodd–Frank is largely premised on the diagnosis that connectedness was ...

    • Mental Time Travel: Episodic Memory and Our Knowledge of the Personal Past 

      Michaelian, Kourken (MIT Press, 2016)
      In this book, Kourken Michaelian builds on research in the psychology of memory to develop an innovative philosophical account of the nature of remembering and memory knowledge. Current philosophical approaches to memory ...

    • The Ancient Origins of Consciousness: How the Brain Created Experience 

      Feinberg, Todd E.; Mallatt, Jon M. (MIT Press, 2016)
      How is consciousness created? When did it first appear on Earth, and how did it evolve? What constitutes consciousness, and which animals can be said to be sentient? In this book, Todd Feinberg and Jon Mallatt draw on ...

    • Rethinking Human Evolution 

      Schwartz, Jeffrey H. (MIT Press, 2018)
      Contributors from a range of disciplines consider the disconnect between human evolutionary studies and the rest of evolutionary biology. The study of human evolution often seems to rely on scenarios and received wisdom ...

    • Winning the Reputation Game: Creating Stakeholder Value and Competitive Advantage 

      Dowling, Grahame R. (MIT Press, 2016)
      What does a company have to do to be admired and respected? Why does Apple have a better reputation than, say, Samsung? In Winning the Reputation Game, Grahame Dowling explains. Companies' reputations do not derive from ...

    • Crowdsourced Health: How What You Do on the Internet Will Improve Medicine 

      Yom-Tov, Elad (MIT Press, 2016)
      Most of us have gone online to search for information about health. What are the symptoms of a migraine? How effective is this drug? Where can I find more resources for cancer patients? Could I have an STD? Am I fat? A Pew ...