Mit Press imprint: 940 books
Beyond Versus
The Struggle to Understand the Interaction of Nature and Nurture
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Why the “nature versus nurture” debate persists despite widespread recognition that human traits arise from the interaction of nature and nurture.
If everyone now agrees that human traits arise not from nature or nurture but from the interaction of nature and nurture, why does the “nature...
by Peter Zachar
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
An exploration of what it means to think about psychiatric disorders as “real,” “true,” and “objective” and the implications for classification and diagnosis.
In psychiatry, few question the legitimacy of asking whether a given psychiatric disorder is real; similarly, in psychology,...
Einstein's Wife
The Real Story of Mileva Einstein-Maric
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019
Was Einstein's first wife his uncredited coauthor, unpaid assistant, or his unacknowledged helpmeet? The real “Mileva Story.”
Albert Einstein's first wife, Mileva Einstein-Maric, was forgotten for decades. When a trove of correspondence between them beginning in their student days was discovered...
by Linda A. Parker
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
A review of the scientific evidence on the effects of cannabinoids on brain and behavioral functioning, with an emphasis on potential therapeutic use.
The cannabis plant has been used for recreational and medicinal purposes for more than 4,000 years, but the scientific investigation into its...
by Jaakko Stenros, Torill Elvira Mortensen, Victor Navarro-Remesal
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2019
Contributors from a range of disciplines explore boundary-crossing in videogames, examining both transgressive game content and transgressive player actions.
Video gameplay can include transgressive play practices in which players act in ways meant to annoy, punish, or harass other players....
How Things Shape the Mind
A Theory of Material Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
An account of the different ways in which things have become cognitive extensions of the human body, from prehistory to the present.
An increasingly influential school of thought in cognitive science views the mind as embodied, extended, and distributed rather than brain-bound or “all in...
by John D. Lantos, Diane S. Lauderdale
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Why preterm birth rates in the United States remain high even as access to prenatal care has improved and infant mortality has steadily dropped.
The United States has one of the highest rates of premature birth of any industrialized nation: 11.5%, nearly twice the rate of many European countries....
Late-Talking Children
A Symptom or a Stage?
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
What parents need to know about the causes and treatment of children's late talking: how to avoid misdiagnoses, navigate the educational system, and more.
When children are late in hitting developmental milestones, parents worry. And no delay causes more parental anxiety than late talking,...
The Body Populace
Military Statistics and Demography in Europe before the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
How data gathered from national conscriptions in pre–World War I Europe influenced understandings of population fitness and redefined society as a collective body.
In pre–World War I Europe, individual fitness was increasingly related to building and preserving collective society. Army...
by Lino Camprubí
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
How engineers and agricultural scientists became key actors inFranco's regime and Spain's forced modernization.
In this book, Lino Camprubí argues that science and technology were at the very center of the building of Franco's Spain. Previous histories of early Francoist science and technology...
Open Minds
The Social Making of Agency and Intentionality
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
A novel proposal that the cognitive architecture for volition and cognition arises from particular kinds of social interaction and communication.
In Open Minds, Wolfgang Prinz offers the novel claim that agency and intentionality are first perceived and understood in others, and that it is...
Mindshaping
A New Framework for Understanding Human Social Cognition
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
A proposal that human social cognition would not have evolved without mechanisms and practices that shape minds in ways that make them easier to interpret.
In this novel account of distinctively human social cognition, Tadeusz Zawidzki argues that the key distinction between human and nonhuman...
by Gerd Gigerenzer, Shira Elqayam, Jean Baratgin
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Examining the role of implicit, unconscious thinking on reasoning, decision making, problem solving, creativity, and its neurocognitive basis, for a genuinely psychological conception of rationality.
This volume contributes to a current debate within the psychology of thought that has wide...
Mental Time Travel
Episodic Memory and Our Knowledge of the Personal Past
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Drawing on current research in psychology, a new philosophical account of remembering as imagining the past.
In this book, Kourken Michaelian builds on research in the psychology of memory to develop an innovative philosophical account of the nature of remembering and memory knowledge. Current...