Brains, it has recently been argued, are essentially prediction machines. They are bundles
of cells that support perception and action by constantly attempting to match incoming …

Over the last quarter century, the dominant tendency in comparative cognitive psychology
has been to emphasize the similarities between human and nonhuman minds and to …

How accurate is the picture of the human mind that has emerged from studies in
neuroscience, psychology, and cognitive science? Anybody with an interest in how minds …

The applications of Artificial Intelligence lie all around us; in our homes, schools and offices,
in our cinemas, in art galleries and-not least-on the Internet. The results of Artificial …

Studies of mind, thought and reason have tended to marginalize the role of bodily form, real-
world action, and environmental backdrop. In recent years, both in philosophy and cognitive …

This revolutionary book provides fresh answers to long-standing questions of human origins
and consciousness. Drawing on his breakthrough research in comparative neuroscience …

Evolutionary robotics is a new technqiue for the automatic creation of autonomous robots.
Inspired by the Darwinian principle of selective reproduction of the fittest, it views robots as …

Working memory limits are best defined in terms of the complexity of the relations that can be
processed in parallel. Complexity is defined as the number of related dimensions or sources …

What are the processes, from conception to adulthood, that enable a single cell to grow into
a sentient adult? The processes that occur along the way are so complex that any attempt to …

The phenomenon of base-rate neglect has elicited much debate. One arena of debate
concerns how people make judgments under conditions of uncertainty. Another more …