Mit press 2000 cambridge ma (36 resultados)

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orig. wrappers. Condición: Minor rubbing. VG. 23x15cm, xviii,360 pp., PAPERBACK. Series: Representation and Mind.

orig.wrappers Minor rubbing. An ink mark to bottom page-edge. VG. 25x18cm, xviii,213 pp, PAPERBACK. Minor rubbing. An ink mark to bottom page-edge. VG.

orig. cloth Minor rubbing, VG., dustwrapper. Textual graphs & charts. 21x14cm, x,177 pp, Series: The Ohlin Lectures. No. 8. Contents: Introduction; International Trade in Inputs: Basic Theory; An Internationally Mobile Productive Input; The Hinterland Effect and Foreign Enclaves; Choise in Trade and Input Mobility; Produced Mobile Inputs: Middle Products; Globalization, Normative Aspects, and the Changing Role of Governments. Minor rubbing, VG., dustwrapper.…

Condición: Minor rubbing. VG. orig.cloth Minor rubbing. VG. 23x15cm, xi,142 pp, Series: Linguistic Inquiry Monographs, 38. Contents: Theories of Movement: Empirical Evidence for Movement; Toward a Morphological Account: Case Assignment & Wh-Movement; (Im)perfections of Language; Movement as a Symmetry-Breaking Phenomenon: Hierarchy & Precedence: The Linear Correspondence Axiom; The Role of Empty Categories in Linearization: Dynamic Antisymmetry; Souces of Symmetry: The Typology of Symmetry; Bare Small Clauses; Multiple-Spec Constructions; Head-Head Constructions; Some Consequences & Speculations; Appendix: Elements of Copular Syntax.…

orig.cloth Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. 23x15cm, xi,272 pp Contents: In the Beginning; Evolution & the Control of Body Temperature as a Mechanism for Survival; The Mechanics of Our Environmental Independence: Building Circuits & Chemicals in the Brain; More About the Brain & Temperature; What's So Important About a Body Temperature of 37' C?; From Siberia to Africa: Understanding the Extremes; The Burning Brain; Fever, Survival & Death; Temperature and the Struggle for Life; The Brain is the Body: A Unitary Perspective on Thermoregulation. Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper.…

orig.cloth Minor rubbing. Corner bumps. VG., dustwrapper. Textual charts & graphs. 23x15cm, xxi,237 pp Contents: Public Goods & Private Strategies: Making Sense of Project Performance; Transformations in Arrangements for Shaping & Delivering Engineering Projects; Mapping & Facing the Landscape of Risks; Project Shaping as a Competitive Advantage; Strategic Systems & Templates; Building Governability into Project Structures; Transformating Institutions; The Financing of Large Engineering Projects; Partnering Alliances for Project Design & Execution; Rising to the Challenge of Evolving High-Stakes Games; Appendices. Minor rubbing. Corner bumps. VG., dustwrapper.…

orig.cloth Minor rubbing. Some light binding soil. VG. 23x15cm, xvi,251 pp Contents: Rape & Evolutionary Theory; The Evolution of Sex Differences; Why Do Men Rape? The Pain & Anguish of Rape; Why Have Social Scientists Failed to Darwinize? The Social Science Explanation of Rape; Law & Punishment; Social Influences on Male Sexuality; Educational Programs; Barriers; Treatment & Recovery; Conclusion. Minor rubbing. Some light binding soil. VG. …

orig.cloth Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. 24x15cm, xiii,198 pp "Experience and feelings are inherently conscious states. There is something it is like to feel pain, to have an itch, to experience bright red. Philosophers call this sort of consciousness "phenomenal consciousness". Even though phenomenal consciousness seems to be a relatively primitive matter, something more widespread in nature than higher-order or reflective consciousness, it is deeply puzzling. In 1995 Michael Tye proposed a theory of phenomenal consciousness now known as representationalism. This book is, in part, devoted to a further development of that theory along with replies to common objections. Tye's focus is broader than representationalism, however. Two prominent challenges for any reductive theory of consciousness are the explanatory gap and the knowledge argument. In part 1 of this book, Tye suggests that these challenges are intimately related. The best strategy for dealing with the explanatory gap, he claims, is to consider it a kind of cognitive illusion. Part 2 of the book is devoted to representationalism. Part 2 connects representationalism with two more general issues. The first is the nature of colour. Tye defends a commonsense, objectivist view of colour and argues that such a view is compatible with modern colour science. In the final chapter, Tye addresses the question of where on the phylogenetic scale phenomenal consciousness ceases, arguing that consciousness extends beyond the realm of vertebrates to such relatively simple creatures as the honeybee" - Publisher's description. Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper.…

orig.cloth Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. 24x15cm, x,272 pp. "From the first unicellular life on Earth, living things have had the capacity to sense heat and cold and to avoid extreme temperatures. With the development of a bigger brain and a constant body temperature, mammals were able to change their habitats. The interplay between behaviour, body temperature and ambient temperature may have played a crucial role in human evolution. In this book Carl Gisolfi and Francisco Mora tell the evolutionary story of the brain and thermoregulation, with an emphasis on modern humans. The book first traces the story of the brain throughout evolution and shows how the control of body temperature as a survival mechanism of our environmental independence, why a body temperature of 37 degrees C (only five degrees from death) is essential for humans and how this narrow temperature range is defended. It describes how we cope with environmental extremes, the function of fevers, and why thermoregulation is best understood through a combination of physiological and cognitive approaches. It also addresses such questions as "Can we cool the brain?" and "Is the elevation in brain temperature (a hot brain) the reason we stop exercising?" - Publisher's description. Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper.…

orig.cloth Minor rubbing. Light binding corner bump. VG. Textual maps. 23x15cm, xviii,286 pp Contents: What is Wrong with Risk Assessment? Goal: Replace Risk Assessment with Alternatives Assessment; How Does Risk Assessment Actually Work? What Are We Defending with Risk Assessment? When Scientists Shut Their Eyes: Pretending That the Safety of Hazardous Activities Can Be Estimated; When Decision Makers Become Compromised: Pronouncing Unneccessary Hazardous Activities "Acceptable"; When a Society Isn't Serious About Environmental Health; Assessing a Narrow Range of Options; Who Loves, Uses, or Cooperates with Risk Assessment; Unneccessary Societal Triage: Comparative Risk Assessment; Alternatives Assessment as an Alternative to Risk Assessment; Alternatives Assessment: The Case of Bovine Growth Hormone & Rotational Grazing; Alternatives Assessment vs. Cost-Benefit Analysis: There Is More to Life Than Money; We Already Know How To Do Alternatives Assessment; We Know How to Push for Alternatives Assessment; The Essential Features of an Alternatives Assessment; A Society That Assesses Its Alternatives; Alternatives Assessment: More Information, Fewer Pages; Making the Shift to Alternatives Assessment; Getting Started; Barriers to Alternatives Assessment; Forces for Alternatives Assessement. Minor rubbing. Light binding corner bump. VG.…

Condición: Minor rubbing. VG. Second edition. orig.cloth Minor rubbing. VG. Textual photos & tables. 23x14cm, xvi,338 pp Contains 13 papers. Includes: J.E. Lovelock "The Gaia Hypothesis"; M. McElroy "Comparison of Planetary Atmosphere: Mars, Venus, & Earth"; C. Matthews "Chemical Evolution in a Hydrogen Cyanide World"; D. Deamer " Origins of Membrane Structure"; A. Lazcano "Origins of Life: History of Ideas"; P.K. Strother & E.S. Barghoorn "Clues to Life in the Archean Eon"; S. Golubic "Microbial Landscapes: Abu Dhabi & Shark Bay"; L. Margulis " Symbiosis & the Origin of Protists"; M. McMenamin "The Antiquity of Life: From Life's Origins to the End of the Lipalian Period"; R. Siever " Continental Drift & Plate Tectonics"; T. Swain "Chemical Signals from Plants & Phanerozoic Evolution"; N. Todd "Mammalian Evolution: Karyotypic Fission Theory"; J. King "Environmental Pollution & the Emergence of New Diseases"; Appendices.…

Condición: Minor rubbing. VG. orig.cloth Minor rubbing. VG. 23x15cm, xiii,166 pp, Series: Linguistic Inquiry Monographs, 36. Contents: Overview & Backround: Sentences as Descriptions of Events; Adverbials as Predicates of Events; Why So Much Decomposition? Negated & Nonnegated Sentences: The Role of Nonfocussed Material; Focal Presuppositions Rethought; Structured Davidsonian Decomposition; Backrounded Focal Entailments & Scope; Postverbal Spanish n-Words as a Diagnostic; Focus & Negation: Bound, Free & Wide Readings; What Is the Negation of a Sentence?; Definite Descriptions, Focus & Negation; Other Negative Contexts; How the Semantics Relates to the Syntax; A Comparison with Earlier Analyses; Appendix: (Non)contrastive Focus & Intonation; Adverbial Quantifiers: Association with Focus: An Instance of Structures Davidsonian Decompositon; When There Is More Than One Adverb; Second Occurence Focus; Embedded Clauses; Quantificational Variability of Indefinites; Focus or VP-Internal versus VP-External? Events or Situations?'Only' & 'Even': Some Syntactic Facts About 'Only'; Conservativity, Focal Mapping & Q-Raising; The Existential Force of 'Only'; The Existential Force of 'Every'; Downward Monotonocity: Weak & Strong; 'Only' Quantifying Over Events; 'Only''s Partner 'Even'; Syntactic Similarities Between 'Only'& 'Even'; Implications & Being Noteworthy; Ambiguous 'Even'-Sentences; The Existential Implicature as Pragmatic Inference; Syntactic & Crosslinguistic Support for the NPI Approach; Conventional Implicature versus Literal Meaning; Determiners: Focus-Affected Noun Phrases: The Basis Phenomenon; Focus-Affected Readings & Q-Raising; Unary Weak.…

orig.cloth Minor rubbing. A small spot to front cover. VG. Textual maps. 23x15cm, (4),345 pp Contains 14 papers. Includes: R.I. Rotberg "Morbidity & Mortality in Human History: The Struggle to Survive"; A.B. Appleby "Nutrition & Disease: The Case of London, 1550-1750"; A. Hardy "Diagnosis, Death & Diet: The Case of London, 1750-1909"; R. Woods & P.R.A. Hinde "Mortality in Victorian England: Models & Patterns"; J.C. Riley "Height, Nutrition & Mortality Risk Considered"; M. Livi-Bacci "Fertility, Nutrition, & Pellagra: Italy during the Vital Revolution"; S.B. Hanley "Urban Sanitation in Preindustrial Japan"; M.McCaa "Spanish & Nahuatl Views on Smallpox & Demographic Catastrophe in Mexico"; D. Alden & J.C. Miller "Out of Africa: the Slave Trade & the Transmission of Smallpox to Brazil, 1560-1831"; K.F. & V.H. Kiple "Deficiency Diseases in the Caribbean"; D.B. Smith "Mortality & Family in the Colonial Chesapeake"; D. Northrup "African Mortality in the Suppression of the Slave Trade: The Case of the Bight of Biafra"; M.P. Gutmann & K.H. Fliess "The Social Context of Child Mortality in the American Southwest"; I.W.D. Hecht "Kinship & Migration: The Making of an Oregon Isolate Community". Minor rubbing. A small spot to front cover. VG. …

Condición: Minor rubbing. VG. orig.cloth Minor rubbing. VG. 23x15cm, xxiv,328 pp Contains 14 papers. Includes: J. Clark "How Wide is Deep Ecology?"; E. Katz "Against the Inevitability of Anthropocentrism"; W. Grey "A Critique of Deep Green Theory"; V. Plumwood "Deep Ecology, Deep Pockets, & Deep Problems: A Feminist Ecosocialist Analysis"; M. Humphrey "Ontological Determinism & Deep Ecology: Evading the Moral Questions?"; A. Salleh "In Defense of Deep Ecology: An Ecofeminist Response to a Liberal Critique"; A.Light "Callicott & Naess on Pluralism"; D. Tothenberg "No World But in Things: The Poetry of Naess's Concrete Cotnents"; M.E. Zimmerman "Possible Political Problems of Earth-Based Religiosity"; A. Gare "The Postmodernism of Deep Ecology, the Deep Ecology of Postmodernism & Grand Narratives"; J. Maskit "Deep Ecology & Desire: On Naess & the Problem of Consumption"; K.A.Jacobsen "Bhagavadgita, Ecosophy T & Deep Ecology"; D. Curtin "A State of Mind Like Water: Ecosophy T & Buddhist Traditions; B. Taylor "Deep Ecology & Social Philosophy: A Critique".…

orig.cloth Bottom spine-edge bump. Slight page-edge soil. VG Textual graphs 23x15cm, xvi,282 pp Contents: Introduction; Environmentalism in the United States, Brazil & Mexico; The U.S. Chemical Industry: From Rachel Carson to Responsible Care;Beyond U.S. Borders; Corporate Voluntarism in the Mexican Chemical Industry; Corporate Voluntarism in the Brazilian Chemical Industry; Conclusion; Appendices. Bottom spine-edge bump. Slight page-edge soil. VG.…

2nd printing. orig.cloth Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. Textual tables. 23x15cm, xxiv,427 pp Contents: Expectations & Performance: Improved Forecasting through the Design of Homogenous Groups; Professional Expectations: Accuracy & Diagnosis of Errors; Expectations & Share Prices; Expectational Data & Japanese Stock Prices; Discrete Expectational Data & Portfolio Performance;The Performance of Managed Portfolios: Differential Information & Timing Ability; Empirical Commodities Partnerships; Professionally Managed Publicly Traded Commodity Funds; New Public Offerings, Information & Investor Rationality: The Case of Publicy Offered Commodity Funds; The Performance of Publicly Offered Commodity Funds; Mutual Funds - Stock Investments: Efficiency with Costly Information: A Reinterpretation of Evidence from Managed Portfolios; Survivorship Bias & Mutual Fund Performance; The Persistence of Risk-Adjusted Mutual Fund Performance; Mutual Funds - Bond Investments: The Performance of Bond Mutual Funds; Fundamental Economic Variables, Expected Returns, & Bond Fund Performance; Debt Markets: Intra-Day Tests of the Efficiency of the Treasury Bill Futures Market; Employing Financial Futures to Increrase the Return on Near Cash (Treasury Bill) Investments; Bond Returns, Immunization & the Return Generating Process; The Structure of Spot Rates & Immunization. Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper.…

orig.cloth Minor rubbing, VG., dustwrapper Textual tables 23x18cm, xx, 248 pp Contents: Introduction; Theoretical Foundations: The Linguistics of Text Structures; The Mathematics of Text Structures; A Computational Account of the Axiomatization of Valid Text Structures & its Proof Theory; The Rhetorical Parsing of Free Texts: Rhetorical Parsing by Means of Manually Derived Rules; Rhetorical Parsing by Means of Automatically Derived Rules; Summarization: Summarizing Natural Language Texts; Improving Summarization Performance Through Rhetorical Parsing Tuning. Minor rubbing, VG., dustwrapper.…

orig.cloth Minor rubbing. An ink mark to top page-edge. VG. 24x15cm., x,396 pp. Contents: Explaining explanation; Discovering explanations; The naturalness of religion and the unnaturalness of science; The shadows and shallows of explanation; "How does it work?" versus "What are the laws?": two conceptions of psychological explanation; Twisted tales: causal complexity and cognitive scientific explanation; Bayes nets as psychological models; The role of mechanism beliefs in causal reasoning; Causality in the mind: estimating contextual and conjunctive power; Explaining disease: correlations, causes, and mechanisms; Explantion in scientists and children; Explanation as orgasm and the drive for causal knowledge: the function, evolution, and phenomenology of the theory formation system; Explanatory knowledge and conceptual combination; Explanatory concepts. Minor rubbing. An ink mark to top page-edge. VG.…

orig. cloth Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. Textual charts. 23x18cm, (iv),430 pp Contains 13 papers. Includes: J. Cassell: "Nudge Nudge Wink Wink: Elements of Face-to-Face Conversation for Embodied Conversational Agents"; J. Cassell; T. Bickmore; L. Campbell; H. Vilhjálmsson & H. Yan: Human Conversation as a System Framework: Designing Embodied Conversational Agents"; E.F. Churchill; L. Cook; P. Hodgson; S. Prevost & J.W. Sullivan: "'May I Help You?': Designing Embodied Conversational Agent Allies"; J. Rickel & W.L. Johnson: "Task-Oriented Collaboration with Embodied Agents in Virtual Worlds"; J.C. Lester; S.G. Towns; C.B. Callaway; J.L. Voerman & P.J. FitzGerald: "Deictic and Emotive Communication in Animated Pedagogical Agents"; I. Poggi & C. Pelachaud: "Performative Facial Expressions in Animated Faces"; G. Ball & J. Breese: "Emotion and Personality in a Conversational Agent"; E. André; T. Rist, S. van Mulken; M. Klesen & S. Baldes: The Automated Design of Believable Dialogues for Animated Presentation Teams"; N.J. Badler; R. Bindiganavale; J. Allbeck; W.Schuler; L. Zhao & M. Palmer: "Parameterized Action Representation for Virtual Human Agents"; D.W. Massaro; M.M. Cohen; J. Beskow & R.A. Cole: " Developing and Evaluating Conversational Interfaces with Animated Characters"; S. Oviatt & B. Adams: "Designing and Evaluating Conversational Interfaces with Animated Characters"; G.A. Sanders & J. Scholtz: "Measurement and Evaluation of Embodied Conversational Agents"; C.Nass; K. Isbister & E. Lee: "Truth Is Beauty: Researching Embodied Conversational Agents". Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper.…

orig.cloth Minor rubbing. Small ink mark to bottom page-edge. VG., dustwrap Textual photos & diagrams. 23x15cm, xii,561 pp, Series: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Contents: Introduction to Transplantation in the Nervous System: Brain Structure & Development; General & Backround Information: History of Neural Transplantation; Transplants & How They Are Used; Control Groups & Experiments; Regulations & Guidelines for Fetal Tissue Transplantation; Mind Control & Other Things to Worry About; Parkinson's Disease: Neural Systems & Parkinson's Disease; Neural Transplantation in Parkinson's Disease: A Brief Synopsis; Fetal Brain Tissue Transplantation in Parkinson's Disease: Experiments in Animals; Adrenal Medulla Transplantation; Studies in Subhuman Primates; Fetal Brain Tissue Transplantation in Parkinson's Disease: Clinical Studies; Using Transplants to Influence Localized Brain Functions; Pain; Hypothalamus & Pituitary; The Cerebral Cortex & Stroke; Circuit Reconstruction; Huntington's Disease; Spinal Cord;Visual System; Genetic Engineering & Technology of the Future: Introduction to Genetic Engineering & Neural Transplantation; Growing Cells in Culture: Stem & Progenitor Cells; Immortal Cell Lines; Genetically Modifed Cells for Producing Neurotrophic Factors & Neurotransmitters; Direct Gene Transfer; Conclusions. Minor rubbing. Small ink mark to bottom page-edge. VG., dustwrap. …

orig.cloth Minor rubbing. Some page-edge soil. VG. Textual graphs & diagrams 26x18cm, xiv,335 pp Contains 13 papers. Includes: Learning About Activity-dependent Genes: Synaptic Regulation of Messenger RNA Trafficking within Neurons; Matrix Metalloproteinases & Tissue Inhibitors of Metalloproteinases in Neuronal Plasticity & Pathology; Long-Term Potentiation: From Molecular Mechanisms to Structural Changes; Role of Synaptic Geometry in the Dynamics & Efficacy of Synaptic Transmission; Neuron / Glia Signalling & Use- Dependent Modification of Synaptic Strength; Anatomical Plasticity in the Striatum during Development & After Lesions in the Adult Rat; Pathway- Specific Regulation of Synapses in the Thalamocortical System; Dynamic Representation of Odors by Oscillating Neural Assemblies; Frequency- Dependent Synaptic Transmission in the Neocortex; Neurobiological Substrates of Associative Memory: A Limbic-Cortical Dialogue; The Purkinje Local Circuit as an Example of a Functional Unit in the Nervous System; Synaptic Plasticity: From Molecules to Behavior. Minor rubbing. Some page-edge soil. VG.…

Condición: Minor rubbing. VG. orig.cloth Minor rubbing. VG. 24x15cm, xi,415 pp Contains 15 papers. Includes: J. Rouse "Coping & Its Constraints"; T.R. Schatzki "Coping with Others with Folk Psychology"; D. Stern "Practices, Practical Holism & Backround Practices"; John Searle "The Limits of Phenomenology"; M.A. Wrathall "Backround Practices, Capacities, & Heideggerian Disclosure"; C. Taylor "What's Wrong with Foundationalism? Knowledge, Agency, & World"; D. Andler "Context & Backround: Dreyfus & Cognitive Science"; S.D. Kelly "Grasping at Straws: Motor Intentionality & the Cognitive Science of Skilled Behavior"; H.M. Collins "Four Kinds of Knowledge: Two (or Maybe Three?) Kinds of Embodiment, & the Question of Artificial Intelligence"; A. Borgmann "Semiartificial Intelligence"; C. Spinosa "Heidegger on Living Gods"; R.C. Solomon "Trusting"; G, Downing " Emotion Theory Reconsidered"; F. Floroes "Heideggerian Thinking & the Transformation of Business Practice"; P. Benner "The Quest for Control & the Possibilities of Care".…

orig.boards Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. 26x18cm, xiii,792 pp Contains 41 papers. Includes: Von Neumann-Morgenstern Solutions to Cooperative Games without Side Payments; The Core of a Cooperative Game without Side Payments; Introduction to "Some Thought on the Theory of Cooperative Games"; A Survey of Cooperative Games without Side Payments; The Bargaining Set for Cooperative Games; A Method of Computing the Kernal of n-Person Games; Cooperative Games with Coalition Structures; Game- Theoretic Analysis of a Bankruptcy Problem from the Talmud; Markets with a Continuum of Traders; Existence of Competitive Equilibria in Markets with a Continuum of Traders; Disadvantageous Monopolies; A Note on Gale's Example; On the Rate of Convergence of the Core; Values of Markets wiuth a Continuum of Traders; Power & Taxes; Power & Taxes in a Multi-Commodity Economy; Core & Value for a Public Goods Economy: An Example; Power & Public Goods; Voting for Public Goods; Values of Markets with Satiation or Fixed Prices; Economic Applications of the Shapley Value; Endogenous Formation on Links Between Players and of Coalitions: An Application of the Shapley Value; An Axiomatization of the Non-Transferable Utility Value;Values for Games without Side Payments: Some Difficulties with Current Concepts; In the Existence and Interpretation on Value Allocaiton; On the Non-Transferable Utility Value: A Comment on the Roth-Shafer Examples; Non-Symmetric Cardinal Value Allocations; Recent Developments in the Theory of the Shapley's Value; Spaces of Measurable Transformation. Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper.…

orig.cloth Minor rubbing. An ink mark to bottom page-edge. VG., dustwrapper 24x15cm, xii,457 pp. "This history of computing focuses not on chronology (what came first and who deserves credit for it) but on the actual architectures of the first machines that made electronic computing a practical reality. The book covers computers built in the United States, Germany, England and Japan. It makes clear that similar concepts were often pursued simultaneously and that the early researchers explored many architectures beyond the von Neumann architecture that eventually became canonical. The contributors include not only historians but also engineers and computer pioneers. An introductory chapter describes the elements of computer architecture and explains why "being first" is even less interesting for computers than for other areas of technology. The essays contain a remarkable amount of new material, even on well-known machines, and several describe reconstructions of the historic machines. These investigations are of more than simply historical interest, for architectures designed to solve specific problems in the past may suggest new approaches to similar problems in today's machines" - Publisher's description. Minor rubbing. An ink mark to bottom page-edge. VG., dustwrapper.…

Hardcover. orig.cloth Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. 24x18cm, viii,565 pp Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper.

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orig.cloth Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. 26x18cm, xvi,779 pp "One of the most challenging problems facing cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience is to explain how mental processes are voluntarily controlled, allowing the computational resources of the brain to be selected flexibly and deployed to achieve changing goals. The 18th of the celebrated international symposia on Attention and Performance focused on this problem, seeking to banish or at least deconstruct the "homunculus": that conveniently intelligent but opaque agents still lurking within many theories, under the guise of a central executive or supervisory attentional system assumed to direct processes that are not "automatic". The 32 contributions discuss evidence from psychological experiments with healthy and brain-damaged subjects, functional imaging, electrophysiology, and computational modelling. Four sections focus on specific forms of control: of visual attention, of perception-action coupling, of task- switching and dual-task performance, and of multistep tasks. The other three sections extend the interdisciplinary approach, with chapters on the neural substrate control, studies of control disorders, and computational simulations. The progress achieved in fractionating, localizing and modelling control functions, and in understanding the interaction between stimulus-driven and voluntary control, takes research on control in the mind/brain to a new level of sophistication" - Publisher's description. Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper.…