完全破解大腦如何型塑我們的生活，
而我們的生活又如何受大腦的影響！
在《大腦解密手冊中》，最受歡迎的神經科學家伊葛門用眾多實例帶領大家瞭解，關在暗暗腦殼中，一般人摸不到也看不到，不發聲響的大腦，到底如何影響我們。
你從出生到兩歲，腦神經連結達到最高峰，是成人的兩倍，但之後才是關鍵，要保留哪些，要留下哪些，才是決定你成為什麼樣的人的關鍵，但到底哪些連結會留下，那些會修掉呢？
我們以為可以活在當下，但事實上我們此刻的所見所聞，都只是一種回憶，現實意識是大腦進行的小把戲，當下早已過去，怎麼會這樣？
今天，你想起跟父母的關係，覺得溫暖美好，但明天卻又覺得冷漠受傷，事實上可能只跟你在什麼環境下回想有關，是不是嚇了一跳？
比電腦精密的人腦，在科技的幫助下，突破的極限超越了我們的想像！
伊葛門用一篇篇的故事，以及最新的腦科學研究，告訴讀者，我們的頭腦，正是宇宙最奇妙的東西，而想理解這最奇妙的東西，就從《大腦解密手冊》開始。

In Memory in the Cerebral Cortex, Joaquin M. Fuster presents the insights of more than three decades of empirical research on the neural processes by which memory is formed, stored, and retrieved. Spanning the field from neuroanatomy to modeling, this book brings together all that we presently know about the role of the cerebral cortex of the primate in memory.

Studies of mechanisms in the brain that allow complicated things to happen in a coordinated fashion have produced some of the most spectacular discoveries in neuroscience. This book provides eloquent support for the idea that spontaneous neuron activity, far from being mere noise, is actually the source of our cognitive abilities. It takes a fresh look at the co-evolution of structure and function in the mammalian brain, illustrating how self-emerged oscillatory timing is the brains fundamental organiser of neuronal information. The small world-like connectivity of the cerebral cortex allows for global computation on multiple spatial and temporal scales. The perpetual interactions among the multiple network oscillators keep cortical systems in a highly sensitive metastable state and provide energy-efficient synchronising mechanisms via weak links. In a sequence of cycles, Gyorgy Buzsaki guides the reader from the physics of oscillations through neuronal assembly organisation to complex cognitive processing and memory storage. His clear, fluid writing accessible to any reader with some scientific knowledge is supplemented by extensive footnotes and references that make it just as gratifying and instructive a read for the specialist. The coherent view of a single author who has been at the forefront of research in this exciting field, this volume is essential reading for anyone interested in our rapidly evolving understanding of the brain.

Drawing on his theory of the origins of the modern mind, Merlin Donald's thesis presents the forces, both cultural and neuronal, that power our distinctively human modes of awareness. Donald proposes that the human mind is a hybrid product of interweaving a supercomplex form of matter (the brain) with an invisible symbolic web (culture) to form a "distributed" cognitive network. This hybrid mind, Donald suggests, is our main evolutionary advantage, for it allowed humanity as a species to break free of the limitations of the mammalian brain.

Theoretical neuroscience provides a quantitative basis for describing what nervous systems do, determining how they function, and uncovering the general principles by which they operate. This text introduces the basic mathematical and computational methods of theoretical neuroscience and presents applications in a variety of areas including vision, sensory-motor integration, development, learning, and memory.The book is divided into three parts. Part I discusses the relationship between sensory stimuli and neural responses, focusing on the representation of information by the spiking activity of neurons. Part II discusses the modeling of neurons and neural circuits on the basis of cellular and synaptic biophysics. Part III analyzes the role of plasticity in development and learning. An appendix covers the mathematical methods used, and exercises are available on the book's Web site.