Pavlov's" theory of higher nervous activity" provided a language that both Soviet
psychiatrists and non-psychiatrists could use to discuss the nature of the mind. Even after his …

We have known for over a thousand years that the brain underlies behavioral expression,
but effective scientific study of the brain is only very recent. Two things converge in this book …

The paper attempts to place the emergence of cognitive science (CS) as an interdisciplinary
research program in historical context. A broad overview of the institutional and intellectual …

Well people are disappearing.... I began to realize what was happening only a year ago, at a
dinner party. Everyone there had something. Several had high cholesterol levels. One had …

В первые десятилетия ХХ в. наука в России претерпела грандиозную трансформацию,
превратившую Советский Союз в один из центров мирового научного знания. Немалую …

How did so much of contemporary technics become so disappointing, so deadening? How
is technics being thought, and worked with, to enliven? What different assemblages and …

This dissertation examines the history of first American and Soviet teaching computers that
were designed to deliver instruction to students and automate teaching. Specifically, I …

Estudo discutindo a evolução da cibernética na União Soviética, analisando as raízes da
disciplina nos anos 1920-1930, a partir da obra dos pesquisadores Ivan Pavlov e Andrei …

Historians have shown how categories of unwanted sound—that is noise—have been
subject to projects of technological abatement and domestication. Less has been written on …