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Open Minded

Searching for Truth about the Unconscious Mind

by Ben R. Newell and David R. Shanks

ISBN: 9780262546195

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 8, 2023

Forthcoming from the MIT Press

Altered States of Consciousness

Experiences Out of Time and Self

by Marc Wittmann

Translated by Philippa Hurd

ISBN: 9780262546089

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: July 11, 2023

What altered states of consciousness—the dissolution of feelings of time and self—can tell us about the mystery of consciousness.

The Entangled Brain

How Perception, Cognition, and Emotion Are Woven Together

by Luiz Pessoa

ISBN: 9780262544603

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: November 15, 2022

A new vision of the brain as a fully integrated, networked organ.

Efficient Cognition

The Evolution of Representational Decision Making

by Armin W. Schulz

ISBN: 9780262546737

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: November 1, 2022

An argument that representational decision making is more cognitively efficient, allowing an organism to adjust more easily to changes in the environment.

How to Stay Smart in a Smart World

Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms

by Gerd Gigerenzer

ISBN: 9780262046954

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 2, 2022

How to stay in charge in a world populated by algorithms that beat us in chess, find us romantic partners, and tell us to “turn right in 500 yards.”

Life, Death, and Other Inconvenient Truths

A Realist's View of the Human Condition

by Shimon Edelman

ISBN: 9780262542784

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: June 28, 2022

A guide for making sense of life—from action (good except when it's not) to thinking (depressing) to youth (a treasure).

The Pragmatic Turn

Toward Action-Oriented Views in Cognitive Science

Edited by Andreas K. Engel, Karl J. Friston and Danica Kragic

ISBN: 9780262545778

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: June 7, 2022

Experts from a range of disciplines assess the foundations and implications of a novel action-oriented view of cognition.

Reconstructing Reason and Representation

by Murray Clarke

ISBN: 9780262545754

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: June 7, 2022

A study of the philosophical implications of evolutionary psychology, suggesting that knowledge is a set of natural kinds housed in the modules of a massively modular mind.

Movement Matters

How Embodied Cognition Informs Teaching and Learning

Edited by Sheila L. Macrine and Jennifer M.B. Fugate

ISBN: 9780262543484

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 19, 2022

Experts translate the latest findings on embodied cognition from neuroscience, psychology, and cognitive science to inform teaching and learning pedagogy.

Language vs. Reality

Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists

by N. J. Enfield

ISBN: 9780262046619

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 29, 2022

A fascinating examination of how we are both played by language and made by language: the science underlying the bugs and features of humankind's greatest invention.

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