The Mit Press imprint: 939 books
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....
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...
The Cognitive-Emotional Brain
From Interactions to Integration
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
A study that goes beyond the debate over functional specialization to describe the ways that emotion and cognition interact and are integrated in the brain.
The idea that a specific brain circuit constitutes the emotional brain (and its corollary, that cognition resides elsewhere) shaped thinking...
Liquidation World
On the Art of Living Absently
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
An examination of the disoriented subject of modernity: a dissolute figure who makes an makes an object of its absence; from Baudelaire to Broodthaers.
In Liquidation World, Alexi Kukuljevic examines a distinctive form of subjectivity animating the avant-garde: that of the darkly humorous and...
Transient Workspaces
Technologies of Everyday Innovation in Zimbabwe
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
An account of technology in Africa from an African perspective, examining hunting in Zimbabwe as an example of an innovative mobile workspace.
In this book, Clapperton Mavhunga views technology in Africa from an African perspective. Technology in his account is not something always brought...
Reframing Rights
Bioconstitutionalism in the Genetic Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
Investigations into the interplay of biological and legal conceptions of life, from government policies on cloning to DNA profiling by law enforcement.
Legal texts have been with us since the dawn of human history. Beginning in 1953, life too became textual. The discovery of the structure of...