The dominance of vision is so strong in sighted people that touch is sometimes considered as a minor perceptual modality. However, touch is a powerful tool which contributes significantly to our knowledge of space and objects. Its intensive use by blind persons allows them to re…
"Why are some types of number so hard to understand? What connects our hands to our sense of number? Why does schooling sometimes leave us so muddled and discouraged that we close the door on our mathematical brain? And what can we do to open the door again?" "Brian Butterworth …
"Why are some types of number so hard to understand? What connects our hands to our sense of number? Why does schooling sometimes leave us so muddled and discouraged that we close the door on our mathematical brain? And what can we do to open the door again?" "Brian Butterworth …
"This book provides the necessary mathematical foundation of multicriteria optimization to solve nonlinear, linear and combinatorial problems with multiple criteria. Motivational examples, illustrate the use of multicriteria optimization in practice. Numerous illustrations and e…
A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning presents a profound and arresting integration of the faculties of the mind - of how we think, speak, and see the world. Ray Jackendoff starts out by looking at languages and what the meanings of words and sentences actually do. He shows that…
This book presents a unique synthesis of the current neuroscience of cognition by one of the world's authorities in the field. The guiding principle to this synthesis is the tenet that the entirety of our knowledge is encoded by relations, and thus by connections, in neuronal ne…