New Releases by Melanie Mitchell

Provides a simple introduction to eyes.

What uses do flowers have? Vibrant color photographs and simple sentences introduce students to this important plant part. This book meets both science and reading standards.

This flash card book plus interactive CD-ROM is ideal for students and practicing dental assistants and hygienists, or anyone wanting a quick way to learn or review dental instruments. Concise units organized by function and procedure cover instruments used in all areas of dentistry, and make it easy for readers to quickly learn instrument names, functions, and tray set-ups. A bonus CD-ROM includes 200 images, interactive puzzles and tray set-up exercises, review questions, a final exam, and a printable "report" function to review progress. The hands-on flash card book plus the interactive CD-ROM facilitates multiple learning styles and can be used in classroom settings or for independent study.

A basic overview of the life cycle of a frog.

An introduction to cloth and its uses in everyday life.

Find out all about Reindeer''s favourite Christmas things, like carols and presents. With lots of familiar Christmas imagery that children will love to look at and talk about and an adorable character, this book will be a treasured Christmas favourite.

The psychologist William James observed that "a native talent for perceiving analogies is ... the leading fact in genius of every order." The centrality and the ubiquity of analogy in creative thought have been noted again and again by scientists, artists, and writers, and understanding and modeling analogical thought have emerged as two of the most important challenges for cognitive science. Analogy-Making as Perception is based on the premise that analogy-making is fundamentally a high-level perceptual process in which the interaction of perception and concepts gives rise to "conceptual slippages" which allow analogies to be made. It describes Copycat - a computer model of analogymaking, developed by the author with Douglas Hofstadter, that models the complex, subconscious interaction between perception and concepts that underlies the creation of analogies. In Copycat, both concepts and high-level perception are emergent phenomena, arising from large numbers of low-level, parallel, non-deterministic activities. In the spectrum of cognitive modeling approaches, Copycat occupies a unique intermediate position between symbolic systems and connectionist systems a position that is at present the most useful one for understanding the fluidity of concepts and high-level perception. On one level the work described here is about analogy-making, but on another level it is about cognition in general. It explores such issues as the nature of concepts and perception and the emergence of highly flexible concepts from a lower-level "subcognitive" substrate. Melanie Mitchell, Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, is a Fellow of the Michigan Society of Fellows. She is also Director of the Adaptive Computation Program at the Santa Fe Institute.