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peter a van der helm

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  • Simplicity in Vision

    A Multidisciplinary Account of Perceptual Organization

    Perceptual organization is the neuro-cognitive process that enables us to perceive scenes as structured wholes consisting of objects arranged in space. Simplicity in Vision explores the intriguing idea that these perceived wholes are given by the simplest organizations of the scenes. Peter A. van der Helm presents a truly multidisciplinary approach to answer fundamental questions such as: Are ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Structural Information Theory

    The Simplicity of Visual Form

    Structural information theory is a coherent theory about the way the human visual system organises a raw visual stimulus into objects and object parts. To humans, a visual stimulus usually has one clear interpretation even though, in theory, any stimulus can be interpreted in numerous ways. To explain this, the theory focuses on the nature of perceptual interpretations rather than on underlying ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

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    The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior

    The first comprehensive treatment of active inference, an integrative perspective on brain, cognition, and behavior used across multiple disciplines.Active inference is a way of understanding sentient behavior—a theory that characterizes perception, planning, and action in terms of probabilistic inference. Developed by theoretical neuroscientist Karl Friston over years of groundbreaking research, ... Read more

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  • Matter and Consciousness, third edition

    An updated edition of an authoritative text showing the relevance for philosophy of mind of theoretical and experimental results in the natural sciences.In Matter and Consciousness, Paul Churchland presents a concise and contemporary overview of the philosophical issues surrounding the mind and explains the main theories and philosophical positions that have been proposed to solve them. Making the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Elements of Causal Inference

    Foundations and Learning Algorithms

    Series series Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series
    A concise and self-contained introduction to causal inference, increasingly important in data science and machine learning.The mathematization of causality is a relatively recent development, and has become increasingly important in data science and machine learning. This book offers a self-contained and concise introduction to causal models and how to learn them from data.After explaining the ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Computational Modeling in Cognition

    Principles and Practice

    An accessible introduction to the principles of computational and mathematical modeling in psychology and cognitive scienceThis practical and readable work provides students and researchers, who are new to cognitive modeling, with the background and core knowledge they need to interpret published reports, and develop and apply models of their own. The book is structured to help readers understand ... Read more

    $87.29 USD

  • Of Minds and Language

    A Dialogue with Noam Chomsky in the Basque Country

    This book presents a state-of-the-art account of what we know and would like to know about language, mind, and brain. Chapters by leading researchers in linguistics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, cognitive neuroscience, comparative cognitive psychology, and evolutionary biology are framed by an introduction and conclusion by Noam Chomsky, who places the biolinguistic enterprise in an ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Plato's Camera

    How the Physical Brain Captures a Landscape of Abstract Universals

    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 picture"—of the universe's timeless categorical and dynamical structure. This construction process, which begins ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Memory and the Computational Brain

    Why Cognitive Science will Transform Neuroscience

    Series Book 6 - Blackwell/Maryland Lectures in Language and Cognition
    Memory and the Computational Brain offers a provocative argument that goes to the heart of neuroscience, proposing that the field can and should benefit from the recent advances of cognitive science and the development of information theory over the course of the last several decades.A provocative argument that impacts across the fields of linguistics, cognitive science, and neuroscience, ... Read more

    $56.00 USD

  • Treatise on the Neurophilosophy of Consciousness

    A Multidisciplinary Biopsychosocial (Bps) Model

    I would like to invite all those studious of the mind/brain interface puzzle to share our insights. What follows represents an ongoing series of reflections on the ontology of consciousness based on some intuitions on life, language acquisition and survival strategies to accommodate the biological, psychic and social imperatives of human life in its ecological niche, thus the BPS model. For the ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Parallel Models of Associative Memory

    Updated Edition

    This update of the 1981 classic on neural networks includes new commentaries by the authors that show how the original ideas are related to subsequent developments. As researchers continue to uncover ways of applying the complex information processing abilities of neural networks, they give these models an exciting future which may well involve revolutionary developments in understanding the brain ... Read more

    $110.99 USD

  • Perception of Form and Forms of Perception

    First Published in 1987. Information processing has come to be regarded as one of the central issues in modern psychology. In recent years it has acquired an especially keen interest due to growing amounts of information. This book continues the authors’ research and constructs a conceptual model of peculiarities (separate aspects) of visual information processing based on views similar to those ... Read more

    $73.99 USD