SETI bioastro: Fw: New Titles in Cognition, Brain and Behavior

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Date: Sat Feb 28 2004 - 12:42:26 PST

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    Subject: New Titles in Cognition, Brain and Behavior

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    The MIT Press is pleased to announce these new titles in Cognition, Brain & Behavior.
    As an MIT e-mail list subscriber, you can get these titles at a savings
    of 20% off -- simply purchase them through our website and enter code
    MW1005 during the checkout process. This 20% discount is applicable to
    your entire book purchase, so you may want to browse around! Please
    note that this discount is applicable to book orders only. It is not
    valid for previously-placed orders, journal subscriptions, or online
    products.
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    Natural Minds
    By Thomas W. Polger

    A theory of consciousness that argues that minds necessarily equal
    brains -- that sensations are brain processes -- and returns the
    identity theory to the philosophical debate about consciousness.
    February 2004 ISBN 0-262-16221-0 $38.00/£24.95 (CLOTH)
    TABLE OF CONTENTS AVAILABLE:
    http://mitpress.mit.edu/item.asp?ttype=2&tid=10122&mlid=255>

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    Weaving a Lexicon
    Edited by D. Geoffrey Hall and Sandra R. Waxman

    The contributors to this volume examine the multidimensional way in
    which infants and children acquire the lexicon of their native
    language.
    February 2004 ISBN 0-262-58249-X $38.00/£24.95 (PAPER)
    TABLE OF CONTENTS AVAILABLE:
    http://mitpress.mit.edu/item.asp?ttype=2&tid=10121&mlid=255>

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    Reasoning About Knowledge
    By Ronald Fagin, Joseph Y. Halpern, Yoram Moses and Moshe Y. Vardi

    Provides a general discussion of approaches to reasoning about
    knowledge and its applications to distributed systems, artificial
    intelligence, and game theory.
    December 2003 ISBN 0-262-56200-6 $39.95/£25.95 (PAPER)
    TABLE OF CONTENTS AVAILABLE:
    http://mitpress.mit.edu/item.asp?ttype=2&tid=10025&mlid=255>

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    Preference, Belief, and Similarity
    Selected Writings
    By Amos Tversky; Edited by Eldar Shafir

    Selected works by the influential cognitive and mathematical
    psychologist and decision theorist Amos Tversky.
    December 2003 ISBN 0-262-70093-X $60.00/£38.95 (PAPER)
    TABLE OF CONTENTS AVAILABLE:
    http://mitpress.mit.edu/item.asp?ttype=2&tid=9980&mlid=255>

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    Seeing and Visualizing
    It's Not What You Think
    By Zenon W. Pylyshyn

    How we see and how we visualize: why the scientific account differs
    from our experience.
    December 2003 ISBN 0-262-16217-2 $50.00/£32.95 (CLOTH)
    TABLE OF CONTENTS AVAILABLE:
    http://mitpress.mit.edu/item.asp?ttype=2&tid=9986&mlid=255>

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    Radiant Cool
    A Novel Theory of Consciousness
    By Dan Lloyd

    An innovative theory of consciousness, drawing on the phenomenology of
    Edmund Husserl and supported by brain-imaging, presented in the form
    of a hardboiled detective story.
    November 2003 ISBN 0-262-12259-6 $24.95/£16.95 (CLOTH)
    TABLE OF CONTENTS AVAILABLE:
    http://mitpress.mit.edu/item.asp?ttype=2&tid=9909&mlid=255>

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    The Visual Neurosciences
    Edited by Leo M. Chalupa and John S. Werner

    An essential reference book for visual science.
    November 2003 ISBN 0-262-03308-9 $195.00/£125.95 (CLOTH)
    TABLE OF CONTENTS AVAILABLE:
    http://mitpress.mit.edu/item.asp?ttype=2&tid=9922&mlid=255>

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    Consciousness and Persons
    Unity and Identity
    By Michael Tye

    A new theory of the unity of consciousness, considering both
    philosophical issues about the nature of persons and personal
    identity and empirical findings in neuroscience.
    November 2003 ISBN 0-262-20147-X $35.00/£22.95 (CLOTH)
    TABLE OF CONTENTS AVAILABLE:
    http://mitpress.mit.edu/item.asp?ttype=2&tid=9983&mlid=255>

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    The MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders
    Edited by Raymond D. Kent

    A major new reference work with entries covering the entire field of
    communication and speech disorders.
    October 2003 ISBN 0-262-11278-7 $95.00/£61.95 (CLOTH)
    TABLE OF CONTENTS AVAILABLE:
    http://mitpress.mit.edu/item.asp?ttype=2&tid=9921&mlid=255>

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