3 new titles of interest
Jessica Balaschak
following new titles in the field of Consciousness Research:
Human Cognition and Social Agent Technology.
Kerstin DAUTENHAHN, University of Reading (ed.)
Advances in Consciousness Research 19
U.S and Canada: 1 55619 435 8 / USD 59.95 (Paperback)
Rest of world: 90 272 5139 8 / NLG 120.00 (Paperback)
Human Cognition and Social Agent Technology is written for readers who
are curious about what human (social) cognition is, and whether and how
advanced software programs or robots can become social agents. Topics
addressed in 16 peer-reviewed chapters by researchers at the forefront of
agent research include: Narrative intelligence and implementations of
story-telling systems, socially situated avatars and 'conscious' software
agents, cognitive architectures for socially intelligent agents, agents=
with
emotions, design issues for interactive systems, artificial life agents,
contributions to agent design from artistic practice, and a Cognitive
Technology view on living with socially intelligent agents. The book
addresses both software and robotic agents. On the one hand justice is
done to the scientific and technical aspects, and on the other hand the
reader will learn about pioneering technological developments which are
necessary for a public discourse and critical evaluation on where social
agent technology is leading us and how such a development can be
shaped in order to meet the social, cultural and cognitive needs of=
humans.
The book is suitable for students, researchers, and everyone interested in
this emerging and quickly growing field, it does not require any=
specialist
background knowledge.
Contributions by: Ruth Aylett and David Barnes; Myles Bogner et al.,
Dolores Cañamero and Walter van de Velde; Linda Cook et al.; Kerstin
Dautenhahn and Chrystopher Nehaniv; Leonard Foner; Stephen Grand;
Christopher Landauer and Kirstie Bellman; Maria Miceli and Cristiano
Castelfranchi; Simon Penny; Phoebe Sengers; Aaron Sloman; Marina
Umaschi Bers and Justine Cassell; Bill Vorn; Eric Werner; Jennifer
Williamson Glos. (Series B)
Individual Differences in Conscious Experience.
Robert G. KUNZENDORFand Benjamin WALLACE, University of Massachusetts at=
Lowell / Cleveland State University (eds.)
Advances in Consciousness Research 20
U.S. and Canada: 1 55619 436 6 / USD 59.95 (Paperback)
Rest of world: 90 272 5140 1 / NLG 120.00 (Paperback)
Individual Differences in Conscious Experience is intended for readers
with philosophical,
psychological, or clinical interests in subjective experience. It
addresses some difficult but important
issues in the study of consciousness, subconsciousness, and
self-consciousness. The book's
fourteen chapters are written by renowned, pioneering researchers who,
collectively, have
published more than fifty books and more than one thousand journal
articles. The editors'
introductory chapter frames the book's subtext: that mind-brain theories=
embodying the constraints
of individual differences in subjective experience should be given
greater credence than nomothetic
theories ignoring those constraints. The next five chapters describe
research and theory pertaining to
individual differences in conscious sensations - specifically, individual=
differences in pain perception,
phantom limbs, gustatory sensations, and mental imagery. Then, two
succeeding chapters focus on
individual differences in subconsciousness. The final six chapters
address individual differences in
altered states of self-consciousness - dreams, hypnotic phenomena, and
various clinical syndromes.
Contributions by: C. Richard Chapman et al.; Leonard Gambia; Ernest
Harman; Joel Katz; Robert
Kunzendorf; Stephen LaBerge and Donald DeGracia; Richard Mattes and Gary=
Beauchamp;
Ronald Pekala and V.K. Kumar; Arthur Reber and Rhianon Allen; Alan
Richardson; Gary
Schwartz; Jefferson Singer et al.; Benjamin Wallace and Leslie Fisher.
(Series B).
Languages of Sentiment.
PALMER, Gary B. and Debra J. OCCHI (eds.), University of Nevada at Las
Vegas / University of California at Davis
Advances in Consciousness Research 18
U.S. and Canada: 1 55619 434 X / USD 34.95 (Paperback)
Rest of world: 90 272 5138 X / NLG 70.00 (Paperback)
Working from Radcliffe-Brown's landmark concept of social sentiments,
anthropologists and
linguists examine pragmatic and cognitive dimensions of emotion-language=
in several societies.
Introductory and concluding chapters devote special attention to
emotional consciousness.
Chapters cover language primordialism in Tamil (Harold Schiffman), the
erasure of lamentation in
Bangla in favor of referential language praxis (James Wilce), women's
discourse in Java that creates
dignity by reframing the pain of humiliation (Laine Berman), speech
styles signalling intimacy and
remoteness in Japanese (Cynthia Dunn), divergent conceptions of love in
Japanese and translated
American romance novels (Janet Shibamoto-Smith), the syntax of
emotion-mimetics in Japanese
(Debra Occhi), the grammar of emotion-metaphors in Tagalog (Gary Palmer,=
Heather Bennett and
Lester Stacey), and the lexical organization of emotions in the English
and Spanish of second
language learners (Howard Grabois). Zoltán Kövecses (with Palmer)
examines the complementary
relationship of social construction theory to the search for universals
of emotional experience.
(Series B)
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