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Getting started in cognitive science (Gershman)
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Vision: A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information
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In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language
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The Art of Memory
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Foraging Theory
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The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Response
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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
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All of Statistics: A Concise Course in Statistical Inference
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The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas About Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference
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Calculus Made Easy
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Foundations of Human Memory
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Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See
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Seeing, second edition: The Computational Approach to Biological Vision
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The Logic of Perception
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Language and Experience: Evidence from the Blind Child (Cognitive science series)
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The Illusion of Conscious Will
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Human Inference: Strategies and Shortcomings of Social Judgement
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Knowledge Representation
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Bayesian Rationality: The Probabilistic Approach to Human Reasoning (Oxford Cognitive Science Series)
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The Origin of Concepts (Oxford Series in Cognitive Development)
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Susan L Carey (Goodreads Author)
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How Children Learn the Meanings of Words
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Theoretical Neuroscience: Computational And Mathematical Modeling of Neural Systems
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Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science Two-Volume Set
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The Adaptive Character of Thought
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What Is Thought? (A Bradford Book)
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Organization of Learning (Learning, Development and Conceptual Change Series)
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Words, Thoughts, and Theories
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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
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Joshua Foer (Goodreads Author)
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Against Method
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction
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Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms
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Elements of Information Theory 2nd Edition (Wiley Series in Telecommunications and Signal Processing)
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Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
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Probability Theory: The Logic of Science
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The Big Book of Concepts (Bradford Books)
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