Over the last decade, the study of complex networks has expanded across diverse scientific fields. Increasingly, science is concerned with the structure, behavior, and evolution of complex systems ranging from cells to ecosystems. Modern network approaches are beginning to reveal fundamental principles of brain architecture and function, and in Networks of the Brain, Olaf Sporns describes how the integrative nature of brain function can be illuminated from a complex network perspective. Highlighting the many emerging points of contact between neuroscience and network science, the book serves to introduce network theory to neuroscientists and neuroscience to those working on theoretical network models. Brain networks span the microscale of individual cells and synapses and the macroscale of cognitive systems and embodied cognition. Sporns emphasizes how networks connect levels of organization in the brain and how they link structure to function. In order to keep the book accessible and focused on the relevance to neuroscience of network approaches, he offers an informal and nonmathematical treatment of the subject. After describing the basic concepts of network theory and the fundamentals of brain connectivity, Sporns discusses how network approaches can reveal principles of brain architecture. He describes new links between network anatomy and function and investigates how networks shape complex brain dynamics and enable adaptive neural computation. The book documents the rapid pace of discovery and innovation while tracing the historical roots of the field. The study of brain connectivity has already opened new avenues of study in neuroscience. Networks of the Brain offers a synthesis of the sciences of complex networks and the brain that will be an essential foundation for future research.

Language, Cognition, and Human Nature collects together for the first time Steven Pinker's most influential scholarly work on language and cognition. Pinker is a highly eminent cognitive scientist, and his research emphasizes the importance of language and its connections to cognition, social relationships, child development, human evolution, and theories of human nature. The thirteen essays in this eclectic collection span Pinker's thirty-year career, ranging over topics such as language acquisitions, visual cognition, the meaning and syntax of verbs, regular and irregular phenomena in language and their implications for the mechanisms of cognition, and the social psychology of direct and indirect speech. Each outlines a major theory - such as evolution, or nature vs. nurture - or takes up an argument with other prominent scholars such as Stephen Jay Gould, Noam Chomsky, or Richard Dawkins. Featuring a new introduction by Pinker that discusses his books and scholarly work, this book represents a major contribution to the field of cognitive science, by one of the field's leading thinkers.

本书是神经生物学领域内的一本世界级名著，本版为跨世纪的第4版。内容涵盖了神经生物学的许多重要方面，系统介绍了神经生物学的基本概念、神经系统的功能及其细胞和分子机制。作者应用许多生动的实例，通过严密的逻辑组织起来，以展示神经生物学的发展脉络。结合300余幅制作精良的插图，为读者提供了这门重要学科的一幅有内在联系的全景图。全书把神经生物学的基本原理和近年进展紧密结合起来，文笔流畅，深入浅出，对相关领域的学生、教授和研究人员均是一本有用的参考书。

What links conscious experience of pain, joy, color, and smell to bioelectrical activity in the brain? How can anything physical give rise to nonphysical, subjective, conscious states? Christof Koch has devoted much of his career to bridging the seemingly unbridgeable gap between the physics of the brain and phenomenal experience. This engaging book--part scientific overview, part memoir, part futurist speculation--describes Koch's search for an empirical explanation for consciousness. Koch recounts not only the birth of the modern science of consciousness but also the subterranean motivation for his quest--his instinctual (if "romantic") belief that life is meaningful. Koch describes his own groundbreaking work with Francis Crick in the 1990s and 2000s and the gradual emergence of consciousness (once considered a "fringy" subject) as a legitimate topic for scientific investigation. Present at this paradigm shift were Koch and a handful of colleagues, including Ned Block, David Chalmers, Stanislas Dehaene, Giulio Tononi, Wolf Singer, and others. Aiding and abetting it were new techniques to listen in on the activity of individual nerve cells, clinical studies, and brain-imaging technologies that allowed safe and noninvasive study of the human brain in action. Koch gives us stories from the front lines of modern research into the neurobiology of consciousness as well as his own reflections on a variety of topics, including the distinction between attention and awareness, the unconscious, how neurons respond to Homer Simpson, the physics and biology of free will, dogs, Der Ring des Nibelungen, sentient machines, the loss of his belief in a personal God, and sadness. All of them are signposts in the pursuit of his life's work--to uncover the roots of consciousness.

This is a fully-searchable, complete text of the MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (MITECS) on a dual-platform CD-ROM.

Since the 1970s the cognitive sciences have offered multidisciplinary ways of understanding the mind and cognition. The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (MITECS) is a landmark, comprehensive reference work that represents the methodological and theoretical diversity of this changing field.

At the core of the encyclopedia are 471 concise entries, from Acquisition and Adaptationism to Wundt and X-bar Theory. Each article, written by a leading researcher in the field, provides an accessible introduction to an important concept in the cognitive sciences, as well as references or further readings. Six extended essays, which collectively serve as a roadmap to the articles, provide overviews of each of six major areas of cognitive science: Philosophy; Psychology; Neurosciences; Computational Intelligence; Linguistics and Language; and Culture, Cognition, and Evolution. For both students and researchers, MITECS will be an indispensable guide to the current state of the cognitive sciences.

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大卫·J·查默斯编著的《有意识的心灵(一种基础理论研究)》立意超凡，出人意料的成功，是心灵哲学多年以来最好的著作。它蔑视传统，建构了一个反唯物主义正统的强大案例。众多唯物主义者必定纷纷请缨讨伐，但查默斯没有给他们留下多少反攻的余地。我们这些持相反立场的唯物论者不可能对查默斯的疏漏和误解抱怨不休——因为他并没有这种疏漏和误解。我们所能做的就是对观点倾向的平衡方式展开争论。

Your toddler throws a tantrum in the middle of a store. Your preschooler refuses to get dressed. Your fifth-grader sulks on the bench instead of playing on the field. Do children conspire to make their parents’ lives endlessly challenging? No—it’s just their developing brain calling the shots! In this pioneering, practical book, Daniel J. Siegel, neuropsychiatrist and author of the bestselling Mindsight , and parenting expert Tina Payne Bryson demystify the meltdowns and aggravation, explaining the new science of how a child’s brain is wired and how it matures. The “upstairs brain,” which makes decisions and balances emotions, is under construction until the mid-twenties. And especially in young children, the right brain and its emotions tend to rule over the logic of the left brain. No wonder kids can seem—and feel—so out of control. By applying these discoveries to everyday parenting, you can turn any outburst, argument, or fear into a chance to integrate your child’s brain and foster vital growth. Raise calmer, happier children using twelve key strategies, including • Name It to Tame It: Corral raging right-brain behavior through left-brain storytelling, appealing to the left brain’s affinity for words and reasoning to calm emotional storms and bodily tension. • Engage, Don’t Enrage: Keep your child thinking and listening, instead of purely reacting. • Move It or Lose It: Use physical activities to shift your child’s emotional state. • Let the Clouds of Emotion Roll By: Guide your children when they are stuck on a negative emotion, and help them understand that feelings come and go. • SIFT: Help children pay attention to the Sensations, Images, Feelings, and Thoughts within them so that they can make better decisions and be more flexible. • Connect Through Conflict: Use discord to encourage empathy and greater social success. Complete with clear explanations, age-appropriate strategies for dealing with day-to-day struggles, and illustrations that will help you explain these concepts to your child, The Whole-Brain Child shows you how to cultivate healthy emotional and intellectual development so that your children can lead balanced, meaningful, and connected lives.

From one of the most significant neuroscientists at work today, a pathbreaking investigation of a question that has confounded philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists for centuries: how is consciousness created? Antonio Damasio has spent the past thirty years studying and writing about how the brain operates, and his work has garnered acclaim for its singular melding of the scientific and the humanistic. In Self Comes to Mind, he goes against the long-standing idea that consciousness is somehow separate from the body, presenting compelling new scientific evidence that consciousness—what we think of as a mind with a self—is to begin with a biological process created by a living organism. Besides the three traditional perspectives used to study the mind (the introspective, the behavioral, and the neurological), Damasio introduces an evolutionary perspective that entails a radical change in the way the history of conscious minds is viewed and told. He also advances a radical hypothesis regarding the origins and varieties of feelings, which is central to his framework for the biological construction of consciousness: feelings are grounded in a near fusion of body and brain networks, and first emerge from the historically old and humble brain stem rather than from the modern cerebral cortex. Damasio suggests that the brain’s development of a human self becomes a challenge to nature’s indifference and opens the way for the appearance of culture, a radical break in the course of evolution and the source of a new level of life regulation—sociocultural homeostasis. He leaves no doubt that the blueprint for the work-in-progress he calls sociocultural homeostasis is the genetically well-established basic homeostasis, the curator of value that has been present in simple life-forms for billions of years. Self Comes to Mind is a groundbreaking journey into the neurobiological foundations of mind and self.

《动物有意识吗》主要内容：如果儿子撒谎，如果猫儿有思想，如果大象痛苦忧伤。动物能够思考吗？它们有情感吗？它们对自己是否有所了解？也就是说，它们有没有某程度的自我意识？许多科学家为此争论不休。福尔克·阿尔茨特和伊曼努尔·比尔梅林对这些问题进行了深入研究。他们讲述了许多简直令人骓以置信的动物行为，并根据来自生物学、动物学以及行为研究的最新认识对其进行了审视。最新的研究成果同样证实了两位作者多年以来的实践经验；动物在许多方面的行为，如果不从情感和思维能力的角度考虑，是无法做出合理解释的。 根据这一认识得出的紧迫结论就是：我们必须彻底反思我们对待动物的态度并建立一种人与动物的崭新关系。

为什么那些有着超高IQ的天才看起来却有些呆头呆脑？为什么魔术师能知道你在想什么？为什么我们的判断有时还不如幼儿正确？为什么看到别人挠痒痒，自己也会觉得痒？其实，这一切都与大脑有关，人类的行为都由大脑控制。《大脑与认知(修订版)》为读者解读关于大脑与人类认知行为之间的关系，不但能告诉你怎样能使大脑更加聪明，还能为你揭开思维的奥秘。 《大脑与认知(修订版)》由刘芳等编著。

本书由唐院士，包括他和同事们合作的，脑与心智方面论著中的部分文章汇编而成。全书分为两部分，第一部分研究脑的工作机制、认知的规律等重大科学问题，它涉及了：脑内信息加工、认知、注意、情绪、语言、意识等。第二部分是关于脑与心智方面的评述，包括：神经信息学、分子影像学、意识研究等。 国内目前关于脑与心智这两个主题相联系的研究书籍较为少见，唐院士的著作填补了这方面的空白，既从脑研究方面又从心理学方面入手研究关于意识的问题，具有扎实的理论基础，提出了有创见的意识研究的观点，是国内脑与心智研究的前沿成果。

哈钦斯结合其人类学家和公海竞技海员(open-ocearl racirlg sailor)的背景，将人类学方法与认知理论相结合，从而对认知科学提出了一种新的解读。他的理论性洞悉是以其对航海导航的扩展分析为基础的，包括计算基础、历史根源、社会组织关系以及大型船只导航实践的执行细节。在实验室之外的文化构成活动(即“荒野中”)中，该解读形成了一种与众不同的跨学科的认知研究。 哈钦斯考察了心理学与人类学之间的一系列现象，揭示了文化与认知之间的新关系。他的结论阐明了忽视认知的文化本性的代价，指出了当代认知科学能通过新的意义和解释而发生转变的方式。

This book is a definitive reference source for the growing, increasingly more important, and interdisciplinary field of computational cognitive modeling. Research in computational cognitive modeling explores cognition through developing detailed, process-based understanding by specifying computational mechanisms, structures, and processes. This book substantiates this approach through overviews and many examples.

《当代心灵哲学导论》既是一本学生的教科书，又是一部严肃的哲学著作。它结构合理、见识广博、资料新颖、题材广泛，写作方式清晰易懂。通过大量的事例，将观点阐释得很清楚，几乎适用于所有关于心灵哲学的本科课程。这《当代心灵哲学导论》是为二年级以上的学生写的，它对当代心灵哲学的种种观点做了一番很精彩的批判性的介绍……它不仅能够在课堂上，而且能够在专业刊物上引起有益的争论。

The Number Sense is an enlightening exploration of the mathematical mind. Describing experiments that show that human infants have a rudimentary number sense, Stanislas Dehaene suggests that this sense is as basic as our perception of color, and that it is wired into the brain. Dehaene shows that it was the invention of symbolic systems of numerals that started us on the climb to higher mathematics. A fascinating look at the crossroads where numbers and neurons intersect, The Number Sense offers an intriguing tour of how the structure of the brain shapes our mathematical abilities, and how our mathematics opens up a window on the human mind.

Consciousness, 'the last great mystery for science', has now become a hot topic. How can a physical brain create our experience of the world? What creates our identity? Do we really have free will? Could consciousness itself be an illusion? Exciting new developments in brain science are opening up debates on these issues, and the field has now expanded to include biologists, neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers. This controversial book clarifies the potentially confusing arguments, and the major theories using illustrations, lively cartoons, and experiments. Topics include vision and attention, theories of self and will, experiments on action and awareness, altered states of consciousness, and the effects of brain damage and drugs.

全面更新的《神经科学研究与进展·认知、脑与意识：认知神经科学导论（全彩色版）（原著第2版）（导读版）》由认知神经科学领域的权威学者Bernard J．Baars和Nicole M．Gage担纲主编，以独特的方式介绍了该领域的知识与进展。基础教育领域的诸多专业要求学生对认知神经科学具备基本的理解。然而，目前的教科书大多为生物学专业的学生准备，较少考虑心理学和其他相关专业的读者。本书以独特的主题式写作手法阐述了认知神经科学的基本概念，章节设置循序渐进，使读者无需神经科学或生物学背景也可以轻松理解。作者以简单漂亮的绘图作品构建大脑，令人印象深刻。每章附有思考题和绘图练习，帮助加深理解。