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How Animals See the World

Comparative Behavior, Biology, and Evolution of Vision
Olga F. Lazareva, Toru Shimizu, Edward A. Wasserman
$135.00
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Hardback,  Feb 2012 ISBN13: 9780195334654ISBN10: 0195334655 The visual world of animals is highly diverse and often very different from that of humans. This book provides an extensive review of the latest behavioral and neurobiological research on animal vision, detailing fascinating species similarities and differences in visual processing.
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The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Cognition

Thomas R. Zentall, Edward A. Wasserman
$175.00
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Hardback,  Feb 2012 ISBN13: 9780195392661ISBN10: 0195392663 A natural science of animal intelligence is not only possible, it is necessary to disclose the true character of minds other than ours. The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Cognition attests to the power and prospects of a natural science account of animal cognition.

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The Oxford Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning

Keith J. Holyoak, Ph.D., Robert G. Morrison, Ph.D.
$175.00
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Hardback,  Feb 2012 ISBN13: 9780199734689ISBN10: 0199734682 The Oxford Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning brings together the contributions of many of the leading researchers in thinking and reasoning to create the most comprehensive overview of research on thinking and reasoning that has ever been available. Each chapter includes a bit of historical perspective on the topic, and concludes with some thoughts about where the field seems to be heading.

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The Passionate Muse

Exploring Emotion in Stories
Keith Oatley
$29.95
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Hardback,  Feb 2012 ISBN13: 9780199767632ISBN10: 0199767637 Keith Oatley is both a novelist and research psychologist. This book is a hybrid text that alternates sections of an original short story with chapters of psychological exploration of the emotions experienced as we read this story, and as we read fiction generally.
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The Passionate Muse

Exploring Emotion in Stories
Keith Oatley
$29.95
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Hardback,  Feb 2012 ISBN13: 9780199767632ISBN10: 0199767637 Keith Oatley is both a novelist and research psychologist. This book is a hybrid text that alternates sections of an original short story with chapters of psychological exploration of the emotions experienced as we read this story, and as we read fiction generally.
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From Perception to Consciousness

Searching with Anne Treisman
Jeremy Wolfe, Lynn Robertson
$150.00
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Hardback,  Mar 2012 ISBN13: 9780199734337ISBN10: 019973433X This volume includes seminal articles published throughout Anne Treisman's scientific career, which are accompanied by chapters from key figures in the field today. These demonstrate the breadth and depth of her influence on research and theory from psychology to vision and auditory sciences.

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Social Perception and Social Reality

Why Accuracy Dominates Bias and Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Lee Jussim
$79.99
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Hardback,  Mar 2012 ISBN13: 9780195366600ISBN10: 0195366603 research in the social sciences has shown stereotypes to be accurate.
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Ecological Rationality

Intelligence in the World
Peter M. Todd, Gerd Gigerenzer
$79.99
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Hardback,  Mar 2012 ISBN13: 9780195315448ISBN10: 0195315448 In this book, the authors argue that in an uncertain world, more information and computation are not always better, and we ask when, and why, less can be more. The answers to these questions constitute the idea of ecological rationality: how we are able to achieve intelligence in the world by using simple heuristics matched to the environments we face, exploiting the structures inherent in our physical, biological, social, and cultural surroundings.
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How the Brain Got Language

The Mirror System Hypothesis
Michael A. Arbib
$49.95
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Hardback,  Mar 2012 ISBN13: 9780199896684ISBN10: 0199896682 Unlike any other species, humans can learn and use language. In this book, Michael Arbib presents the Mirror System Hypothesis, which suggests how complex imitation supported the breakthrough to pantomime, protosign (communication based on conventionalized manual gestures) and protospeech and then, through cultural evolution, to fully fledged languages.
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Ignorance

How It Drives Science
Stuart Firestein
$21.95
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Hardback,  Mar 2012 ISBN13: 9780199828074ISBN10: 0199828075 A provocative account of the role of ignorance in science, revealing how "not knowing" is the essential force that drives research
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