The Mit Press imprint: 939 books
Learnability and Cognition
The Acquisition of Argument Structure
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
A classic book about language acquisition and conceptual structure, with a new preface by the author, "The Secret Life of Verbs."
Before Steven Pinker wrote bestsellers on language and human nature, he wrote several technical monographs on language acquisition that have become classics in cognitive...
Young People, Ethics, and the New Digital Media
A Synthesis from the GoodPlay Project
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2009
Social networking, blogging, vlogging, gaming, instant messaging, downloading music and other content, uploading and sharing their own creative work: these activities made possible by the new digital media are rich with opportunities and risks for young people. This report, part of the GoodPlay Project,...
Privacy on the Line
The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
A penetrating and insightful study of privacy and security in telecommunications for a post-9/11, post-Patriot Act world.
Telecommunication has never been perfectly secure. The Cold War culture of recording devices in telephone receivers and bugged embassy offices has been succeeded by a post-9/11...
by Margaret A. Boden, Liane Gabora, Apara Ranjan
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Experts describe current perspectives and experimental approaches to understanding the neural bases of creativity.
This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the latest neuroscientific approaches to the scientific study of creativity. In chapters that progress logically from neurobiological...
Hallucination
Philosophy and Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Scientific and philosophical perspectives on hallucination: essays that draw on empirical evidence from psychology, neuroscience, and cutting-edge philosophical theory.
Reflection on the nature of hallucination has relevance for many traditional philosophical debates concerning the nature of...
The Moral Brain
A Multidisciplinary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
An overview of the latest interdisciplinary research on human morality, capturing moral sensibility as a sophisticated integration of cognitive, emotional, and motivational mechanisms.
Over the past decade, an explosion of empirical research in a variety of fields has allowed us to understand...
Classifying Psychopathology
Mental Kinds and Natural Kinds
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Scholars question the extent to which current psychiatric classification systems are inadequate for diagnosis, treatment, and research of mental disorders and offer suggestions for improvement.
In this volume, leading philosophers of psychiatry examine psychiatric classification systems, including...
Felt Time
The Psychology of How We Perceive Time
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
An expert explores the riddle of subjective time, from why time speeds up as we grow older to the connection between time and consciousness.
We have widely varying perceptions of time. Children have trouble waiting for anything. (“Are we there yet?”) Boredom is often connected to our sense...
The Anatomy of Bias
How Neural Circuits Weigh the Options
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2011
An integrative account of the neural underpinnings of decision making, emphasizing the ways in which some information sources are given more weight than others.
I will recklessly endeavor to scavenge materials from these various fields with the single aim of producing a coherent, but open-minded...
Computer Games for Learning
An Evidence-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
A comprehensive and up-to-date investigation of what research shows about the educational value of computer games for learning.
Many strong claims are made for the educational value of computer games, but there is a need for systematic examination of the research evidence that might support...
Plato's Camera
How the Physical Brain Captures a Landscape of Abstract Universals
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
A noted philosopher draws on the empirical results and conceptual resources of cognitive neuroscience to address questions about the nature of knowledge.
In Plato's Camera, eminent philosopher Paul Churchland offers a novel account of how the brain constructs a representation—or "takes a...
Infectious Behavior
Brain-Immune Connections in Autism, Schizophrenia, and Depression
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
An examination of brain-immune system communication in autism, schizophrenia, and depression.
In Infectious Behavior, neurobiologist Paul Patterson examines the involvement of the immune system in autism, schizophrenia, and major depressive disorder. Although genetic approaches to these diseases...
A Hole in the Head
More Tales in the History of Neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
Essays on great figures and important issues, advances and blind alleys—from trepanation to the discovery of grandmother cells—in the history of brain sciences.
Neuroscientist Charles Gross has been interested in the history of his field since his days as an undergraduate. A Hole in the...
The Myth of the Moral Brain
The Limits of Moral Enhancement
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
An argument that moral functioning is immeasurably complex, mediated by biology but not determined by it.
Throughout history, humanity has been seen as being in need of improvement, most pressingly in need of moral improvement. Today, in what has been called the beginnings of “the golden...