Learn IT - Books tags cognitive

From Writing to Computers

Routledge, 1994

... the broad and clear analysis of writing and language, and of automata theory, formal logic, and computability theory he uses to reach [his conclusion] is well worth reading.
–H. D. Warner, Western New England College

From Writing to Computers takes as its central theme the issue of a...

Retirementology: Rethinking the American Dream in a New Economy

FT Press, 2010

Looking ahead to retirement? Depending on your circumstances and your age, you may no longer have any margin for error. And your emotions and irrational behavior could be perpetuating a dangerous cycle of overspending and rising debt that may shatter whatever vision of retirement you still have. Welcome to the world of...

The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction

Harper Perennial, 2019

A Wall Street Journal writer’s conversation-changing look at how reading aloud makes adults and children smarter, happier, healthier, more successful and more closely attached, even as technology pulls in the other direction.

A miraculous alchemy occurs when one person reads to another, transforming...

Artificial Mind System: Kernel Memory Approach (Studies in Computational Intelligence)

Springer, 2005

This book is written from an engineer's perspective of the mind. "Artificial Mind System" exposes the reader to a broad spectrum of interesting areas in general brain science and mind-oriented studies. In this research monograph a picture of the holistic model of an artificial mind system and its behaviour is drawn, as concretely as...

Radical Embodied Cognitive Science (Bradford Books)

MIT Press, 2009

While philosophers of mind have been arguing over the status of mental representations in cognitive science, cognitive scientists have been quietly engaged in studying perception, action, and cognition without explaining them in terms of mental representation. In this book, Anthony Chemero describes this nonrepresentational approach (which he terms...

Knowledge in Formation: A Computational Theory of Interpretation (Cognitive Technologies)

Springer, 2011

With knowledge representation we face more or less the same problem as Augustine (354–430) when thinking about time: if nobody asks what it is, it seems clear enough, but being asked it proves to be very difficult to provide an answer.

At the beginning of our research we thought that a solution for the problem of...

Humane Interfaces (Human Factors in Information Technology)

North Holland, 1999

Ever since the first successful International Cognitive Technology (CT) Conference in Hong Kong in August 1995, a growing concern about the dehumanising potential of machines, and the machining potential of the human mind, has pervaded the organisers' thinking. When setting up the agenda for the Second International CT Conference in Aizu, Japan, in...

Animal Models of Cognitive Impairment (Frontiers in Neuroscience)

CRC Press, 2006

The costs associated with a drug’s clinical trials are so significant that it has become necessary to validate both its safety and efficacy in animal models prior to the continued study of the drug in humans.

Featuring contributions from distinguished researchers in the field of cognitive therapy research, Animal Models of...

Head First Rails: A learner's companion to Ruby on Rails (Brain-Friendly Guides)

O'Reilly, 2009

Ready to transport your web applications into the Web 2.0 era? Head First Rails takes your programming -- and productivity -- to the max. You'll learn everything from the fundamentals of Rails scaffolding to building customized interactive web apps using Rails' rich set of tools and the MVC framework.

By the time you're...

Prefrontal Cortex: From Synaptic Plasticity to Cognition

Springer, 2004

This volume, Prefrontal Cortex: from Synaptic Plasticity to Cognition, is an interdisciplinary approach to characterize the function of the anterior portion of the frontal lobe in rodents and human and non-human primates. The specific topics discussed in the chapters of this volume are purposefully diverse: they range from membrane properties...

What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite

Prometheus Books, 2011

This book reveals a remarkable paradox: what your brain wants is frequently not what your brain needs. In fact, much of what makes our brains "happy" leads to errors, biases, and distortions, which make getting out of our own way extremely difficult.

Author David DiSalvo presents evidence from evolutionary and...

Internet Gaming Disorder: Theory, Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention

Academic Press, 2018

Internet Gaming Disorder: Theory, Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention is an informative and practical introduction to the topics of Internet gaming disorder and problematic gaming. This book provides mental health clinicians with hands-on assessment, prevention, and treatment techniques for clients with problematic gaming behaviors...

Result Page: 43 42 41 40 39 38 37 36 35 34 33 32 31 30