neuroscience Books
We've found 13 books tagged 'neuroscience' relevant to the field of humanlike conversational artificial intelligence.
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11600
by Christian Mühl, Dirk Heylen and Anton Nijholt |
Summary: These are the proceedings of ABCI 2009, Affective Brain Computer Interfaces, a workshop that was organized in conjunction with ACII 2009, the International Conference on Affective Computation and Intelligent Interaction, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2009. The workshop took place on September 9, one...
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11573
by Ben Goertzel and Cassio Pennachin |
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Springer
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2007 |
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http://www.amazon.com/Artifici... |
Summary: This is the first book on current research on artificial general intelligence (AGI), work explicitly focused on engineering general intelligence – autonomous, self-reflective, self-improving, commonsensical intelligence. Each author explains a specific aspect of AGI in detail in each chapter, while also investigating the common themes...
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Introduction to Cognitive Science |
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The MIT Press
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2005 |
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http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Int... |
Summary: Cognitive science approaches the study of mind and intelligence from an interdisciplinary perspective, working at the intersection of philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, linguistics, and anthropology. With Mind, Paul Thagard offers an introduction to this interdisciplinary field for readers who come to the subject with...
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A Slim Guide to Semantics |
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Oxford University Press
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2011 |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Meanin... |
Summary: Our outstanding ability to communicate is a distinguishing features of our species. To communicate is to convey meaning, but what is meaning? How do words combine to give us the meanings of sentences? And what makes a statement ambiguous or nonsensical? These questions and many...
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10224
by Keith Frankish and William Ramsey |
Summary: Cognitive science is a cross-disciplinary enterprise devoted to understanding the nature of the mind. In recent years, investigators in psychology, the neurosciences, artificial intelligence, philosophy and a host of other disciplines have come to appreciate how much they can learn from one another about the...
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Putting Brain, Body and World Together Again |
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The MIT Press
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1998 |
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http://www.amazon.com/Being-Th... |
Summary: Brain, body, and world are united in a complex dance of circular causation and extended computational activity. In “Being There” Andy Clark weaves these several threads into a pleasing whole and goes on to address foundational questions concerning the new tools and techniques needed to...
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Representation and Mind |
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The MIT Press
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2005 |
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http://www.amazon.com/Action-P... |
Summary: “Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us,” writes Alva Noë. “It is something we do.” In Action in Perception, Noë argues that perception and perceptual consciousness depend on capacities for action and thought-that perception is a kind of thoughtful activity. Touch,...
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The Ingredients of Language |
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Harper Perennial
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2000 |
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http://www.amazon.com/Words-Ru... |
Summary: Words and Rules, The Ingredients of Language is a truly great book about language and linguistics. Steven Pinker, as a professor of psychology and director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at MIT, happily can be taken to represent the best in contemporary linguistics and...
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How We Make Decisions |
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Plume
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2007 |
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http://www.amazon.com/Your-Bra... |
Summary: “A fascinating introduction” (Steven Pinker) to the science of decision-making
One of the leading thinkers in the computational neuroscience revolution offers a brilliant new perspective on the mind’s decision-making process. Why do we make the choices we make? How can science explain free will? If our...
Summary: This is one of the rare occasions in which a scientific text is at once an entertaining, literary fluent and a deeply rewarding read. Pinker, director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Is a vowed Chomskyan, and in this...
