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Dædalus Coming up in Dædalus Dædalus coming up in Dædalus: On an Aging Society John W. Rowe, Jay Olshansky, Julie Zissimopoulos, Dana Goldman, Robert Hummer, Mark Hayworth, Lisa Berkman, Axel Börsch-Supan, Dædalus Dawn Carr, Linda Fried, Frank Furstenberg, Caroline Hartnett, Martin Kohli, Mauricio Avendano, John Rother, David Bloom, David Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences Canning, and others Winter 2015 On Water Christopher Field & Anna Michalak, Michael Witzel, Charles Vörösmarty, Michel Meybeck & Christopher L. Pastore, Terry L. Good For? Winter 2015: What is the Brain Anderson, John Briscoe, Richard G. Luthy & David L. Sedlak, Stephen R. What is Fred H. Gage Neuroscience: The Study of the Carpenter & Adena R. Rissman, Jerald Schnoor, Katherine Jacobs, and the Brain Nervous System & Its Function 5 others Good For? Robert H. Wurtz Brain Mechanisms for Active Vision 10 Thomas D. Albright Perceiving 22 Food, Health & G. David Tilman, Walter C. Willett, Meir J. Stampfer & Jaquelyn L. the Environment Jahn, Nathaniel D. Mueller & Seth Binder, Andrew Balmford, Rhys A. J. Hudspeth The Energetic Ear 42 Green & Ben Phalan, G. Philip Robertson, Brian G. Henning, and others Larry R. Squire Remembering 53 & John T. Wixted The Internet David Clark, Yochai Benkler, Peter Kirstein, Deborah Estrin & Ari Brendon O. Watson Sleep, Memory & Brain Rhythms 67 Juels, Archon Fung, Susan Landau, John Palfrey, and others & György Buzsáki Emilio Bizzi A Hard Scienti½c Quest: plus What’s New About the Old?; Political Leadership; New Dilemmas & Robert Ajemian Understanding Voluntary Movements 83 in Ethics, Technology & War &c Joseph E. LeDoux Feelings: What Are They & How Does the Brain Make Them? 96 Earl K. Miller Working Memory Capacity: & Timothy J. Buschman Limits on the Bandwidth of Cognition 112 Terrence J. Sejnowski Consciousness 123 U.S. $14; www.amacad.org Cherishing Knowledge · Shaping the Future Inside front cover: The receptor for auditory stimuli, the organ of Corti, includes a single row of inner hair cells that convey information about sound to the brain. The three adjacent rows of outer hair cells constitute a mechanical ampli ½er that increases the ear’s sensitivity and sharpens its frequency tuning. In this confo- cal micrograph of the mouse’s cochlea, both green and red labels distinguish the hair cells. The nuclei of all the cells, including the arcs of cells bracketing the hair cells, are marked with a blue dye. © 2015 by Ksenia Gnedeva. Fred H. Gage, Guest Editor Phyllis S. Bendell, Managing Editor and Director of Publications D Peter Walton, Assistant Editor Emma Goldhammer, Senior Editorial Assistant J Committee on Studies and Publications Jerrold Meinwald and John Mark Hansen, Cochairs; Denis Donoghue, Gerald Early, Carol Gluck, Sibyl Golden, Linda Greenhouse, John Hildebrand, Jerome Kagan, Philip Khoury, Steven Marcus, Eric Sundquist, Jonathan Fanton (ex of½cio), Don M. Randel (ex of½cio), Diane P. Wood (ex of½cio) Dædalus is designed by Alvin Eisenman. Dædalus Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences The labyrinth designed by Daedalus for King Minos of Crete, on a silver tetradrachma from Cnossos, Crete, c. 350–300 b.c. 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