The Adaptable Mind: What Neuroplasticity and Neural Reuse tells us about Language and Cognition 0190067888, 9780190067885

The Adaptable Mind: What Neuroplasticity and Neural Reuse Tells Us about Language and Cognition [Hardcover ed.] 0190067888, 9780190067885

A familiar trope of cognitive science, linguistics, and the philosophy of psychology over the past forty or so years has

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Why Language?: What Pragmatics Tells Us About Language And Communication 9783110723380, 9783110723328, 9783111266763

There is, at present, no book introducing the general issue of why language is specific to human beings, how it works, w

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Why Language?: What Pragmatics Tells Us About Language And Communication 9783110723380, 9783110723328, 9783111266763

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Embodied Acting: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Performance 041550788X, 9780415507882

Embodied Acting is an essential, pragmatic intervention in the study of how recent discoveries within cognitive science

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Copy This Book!: What Data Tells Us about Copyright and the Public Good 9781503614314

In Copy This Book!, Paul J. Heald draws on a vast knowledge of copyright scholarship and a deep sense of irony to explai

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Pictures of the Mind: What the New Neuroscience Tells Us About Who We Are [1st edition] 0137155166, 9780137155163, 2009040031

Neuroscientists once believed your brain was essentially "locked down" by adulthood. No new cells. No major ch

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Big Liars: What Psychological Science Tells Us About Lying and How You Can Avoid Being Duped

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Mortal Rituals: What the Story of the Andes Survivors Tells Us About Human Evolution 9780231535465

On December 21, 1972, sixteen young survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 were rescued after spending ten weeks st

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Would You Kill the Fat Man?: The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us about Right and Wrong 9781400848386

A runaway train is racing toward five men who are tied to the track. Unless the train is stopped, it will inevitably kil

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Smellosophy: What the Nose Tells the Mind 9780674245426

For decades neuroscientists understood sensory perception as a matter of external stimuli “sparking” regions of the brai

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