写给忙碌者的音乐认知速览
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音乐，似乎是人类与生俱来的能力，却为何被达尔文称为难解的谜团？
为什么尼采说我们是在用肌肉听音乐？
音乐何以激发人们充沛的情感，又何以疗愈病痛？
结合天文学、神经科学、人工智能、语言学和遗传学的最新进展，作者带领我们揭秘音乐在大脑中的感知密码。
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摇滚、爵士、古典、歌剧、说唱、电音……为什么人们会喜欢不同类型的音乐？
为什么有些曲调让我们为之落泪，或让我们为之兴奋甚至为之起舞？
为什么丧失了运动和语言能力的人，能够在听到音乐时奇迹般地做出回应？
当然，这一切都始于耳朵。由钢琴、长笛、小提琴等乐器产生的声波，钻进我们的耳朵，被转化成神经信号，传递到大脑的各个不同区域。但随后又发生了什么事，使得音乐令人沉醉呢？
长期关注医学健康与科学前沿的记者米歇尔·罗雄通过这本书，带领读者对我们的大脑一探究竟，梳理音乐被心灵感知的奥秘。他在书中引述了近年来在天文学、神经科学、人工智能、语言学和遗传学领域的研究进展，这些科研成果将刷新我们对音乐乃至声音的认知：原来，音乐不仅是治愈人心的精神良药，更是植根于我们身体的存在。
【内容简介】
从古至今，音乐一直是人们精神生活中必不可少的内容。音乐的起源，可以追溯到人类文明之初。但音乐如何被大脑感知，则是科学家长久以来关心的谜题。
从古希腊先哲提出音乐宇宙的概念，到神经学家揭晓听觉的生理机制，再到如今借助人工智能技术创造“赛博格”，用音乐疗法对抗精神疾病，科学界孜孜不倦地探索着音乐的奥秘。长期关注医疗健康领域的科学记者米歇尔·罗雄将通过回顾这些发现，引导我们领略音乐与人类大脑之间不可思议的关联。

This book introduces new and provocative neuroscience research that advances our understanding of intelligence and the brain. Compelling evidence shows that genetics plays a more important role than environment as intelligence develops from childhood, and that intelligence test scores correspond strongly to specific features of the brain assessed with neuroimaging. In understandable language, Richard J. Haier explains cutting-edge techniques based on genetics, DNA, and imaging of brain connectivity and function. He dispels common misconceptions, such as the belief that IQ tests are biased or meaningless, and debunks simple interventions alleged to increase intelligence. Readers will learn about the real possibility of dramatically enhancing intelligence based on neuroscience findings and the positive implications this could have for education and social policy. The text also explores potential controversies surrounding neuro-poverty, neuro-socioeconomic status, and the morality of enhancing intelligence for everyone. Online resources, including additional visuals, animations, questions and links, reinforce the material.

意识问题被认为是“科学的最后一个伟大秘密”，一度被极端的怀疑主义者和主流科学家拒绝研究。现在，它是一个重要的研究领域——“意识的生物学基础是什么？”在《科学》(Science)公布的125个最具挑战性的科学问题中高居第二位。尽管它仍然是一个充满争议的领域，但对于心理学、哲学和神经科学的学生来说，也是一个在快速扩大的研究领域。
本书探讨了从神经科学和心理学到哲学和量子理论的意识研究的关键理论及证据。它探究了为什么“意识”一词没有一致的定义，也让读者有机会去探究关于自我、心智和意识的个人直觉。
本书涵盖了该领域所有核心主题，包括：
·为什么研究意识问题如此困难？
·神经科学和意识的神经关联。
·为什么我们会误解自己的思想？
·意识和无意识之间的明显区别。
·关于注意、自由意志和自我及其他的理论。
·动物和机器中意识的进化。
·从冥想、用药到做梦的意识改变状态。
本书还提供了关键概念专栏、知名思想家的小传，以及适合于独立研究和进行小组讨论的练习与活动专栏，为意识这个迷人的领域提供了完整而全面的介绍。

Memory, attention, and decision-making are three major areas of psychology. They are frequently studied in isolation, and using a range of models to understand them. This book brings a unified approach to understanding these three processes. It shows how these fundamental functions for cognitive neuroscience can be understood in a common and unifying computational neuroscience framework. This framework links empirical research on brain function from neurophysiology, functional neuroimaging, and the effects of brain damage, to a description of how neural networks in the brain implement these functions using a set of common principles. The book describes the principles of operation of these networks, and how they could implement such important functions as memory, attention, and decision-making. The topics covered include The hippocampus and memory Reward and punishment related learning: emotion and motivation Visual object recognition learning Short term memory Attention, short term memory, and biased competition Probabilistic decision-making Action selection Decision-making Also included are tutorial appendices on Neural networks in the brain Neural encoding in the brain 'Memory, Attention and Decision-Making' will be valuable for those in the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience from advanced undergraduate level upwards. It will also be of interest to those interested in neuroeconomics, animal behaviour, zoology, evolutionary biology, psychiatry, medicine, and philosophy. The book has been written with modular chapters and sections, making it possible to select particular Chapters for course work.

A dominant theme in neuroscience research is that of 'neuroplasticity' which usually refers to some change in the nervous system as a function of age and/or experience. A key question is whether the various forms of neuroplasticity described for different species and in different areas of the nervous system are related or if they describe completely separate processes. The present volume attempts to address this question by providing a broad survey of many of the major areas in neuroplasticity research by leading investigators in the field. The topics considered range across all levels of nervous system organization from the molecular to behavioral levels for species ranging from C. elegans to humans. In addition, the effects of development and neuropathological events are discussed. A final summary chapter synthesizes the data gathered in this volume in order to provide the basis for a general theory of neuroplasticity. Toward a Theory of Neuroplasticity represents the first attempt to bridge the vast subject area of neuroplasticity and provides an overview of the complexity and diversity of contemporary neuroplasticity research. This book will provide essential data, references and insights for both students and working scientists interested in this dynamic field.

Molecular Biology of the Cell is a cellular and molecular biology textbook published by Garland Science and currently authored by Bruce Alberts, Alexander D. Johnson, Julian Lewis (deceased), David Morgan, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts and Peter Walter. The book was first published in 1983 and is now in its sixth edition. The molecular biologist James Watson contributed to the first three editions.
Molecular Biology of the Cell is widely used in introductory courses at the university level, being considered as a reference in many libraries and laboratories around the world. It describes the current understanding of cell biology and includes basic biochemistry, experimental methods for investigating cells, the properties common to most eukaryotic cells, the expression and transmission of genetic information, the internal organization of cells, and the behaviour of cells in multicellular organisms. Molecular Biology of the Cell has been described as “the most influential cell biology textbook of its time”.The sixth edition is dedicated to the memory of co-author Julian Lewis who died in early 2014.

博物馆学专家妮娜·莱文特和哈佛大学药学院神经学教授阿尔瓦罗·帕斯夸尔-利昂以跨学科的视角强调了当代博物馆发展的新趋势和尚未得到系统运用的领域，即多感知研究，如嗅觉、味觉、听觉、触觉、本体感觉在博物馆中的利用机会及它们对观众参观认知与思维导向的影响效果。从“触摸展品”到“博物馆气味角”，本书探究了五种感官是如何参与到文化体验中的；它联合了博物馆学专家及心理学家、神经系统学家、建筑学家等来试验身体互动是如何影响观众对于展品和展览的理解的，同时特别地讨论了博物馆如何为感官残障者提供了更沉浸式的体验和多感知的服务。

本书参阅国际上已经出版的相关专著，结合近年来发育神经生物学的进展，重点介绍了神经系统从发育到老化中的有关问题及分子调控与研究方法。

Each edition of this classic reference has proved to be a benchmark in the developing field of cognitive neuroscience. The fifth edition of The Cognitive Neurosciences continues to chart new directions in the study of the biological underpinnings of complex cognitio—the relationship between the structural and physiological mechanisms of the nervous system and the psychological reality of the mind. It offers entirely new material, reflecting recent advances in the field.
Many of the developments in cognitive neuroscience have been shaped by the introduction of novel tools and methodologies, and a new section is devoted to methods that promise to guide the field into the future—from sophisticated models of causality in brain function to the application of network theory to massive data sets. Another new section treats neuroscience and society, considering some of the moral and political quandaries posed by current neuroscientific methods.
Other sections describe, among other things, new research that draws on developmental imaging to study the changing structure and function of the brain over the lifespan; progress in establishing increasingly precise models of memory; research that confirms the study of emotion and social cognition as a core area in cognitive neuroscience; and new findings that cast doubt on the so-called neural correlates of consciousness.

This book explains how the human brain evolved to make language possible and how cultural evolution took over from biological evolution during the transition from basic forms of communication to fully fledged languages. Basing his argument on the latest research in neuroscience, linguistics, and primatology, Michael Arbib presents an up-to-the-minute version of a theory that offers insights into the evolutionary importance of the brain's mirror neurons that enable monkeys, chimps, and humans to recognize the actions of others. Only in humans have these evolved to allow the "complex imitation" which supports the breakthrough to language. This theory, he shows, lights the path from the simple manual gesture we share with apes, to the imitation of manual skills and pantomime, and to the development of sign language and speech. It also explains why we can learn sign languages as easily as we can learn to speak. The author looks at how the brain mechanisms that made the original emergence of fully-fledged languages possible are still active in the ways that children acquire language today and sign languages continue to emerge. He also shows their crucial role in the processes by which languages change on time scales from decades to centuries. This book explains how the brain evolved to make language Michael Arbib provides nonspecialist readers with all the necessary background in primatology, neuroscience, and linguistics. His compelling account of this fascinating subject is fully accessible to a general audience.

本书阐释了神经科学中的主要概念，着重体现了这些概念蕴含的主要内容以及它们是如何被揭示的。全书共13章，内容包括神经元内的信号通路，神经突触的信号传递，视觉，视觉系统神经回路的连接，嗅觉、味觉、听觉及体感，神经系统的连接，运动和调控系统，性行为，记忆、学习与突触可塑性，脑疾病，神经系统的演化，神经科学研究方法等。书中通过一系列关键实验展示了神经科学的发展历程，每一专题均将分子、细胞、神经回路、系统及行为途径等多元内容进行整合，有助于学生追踪相关文献和数据，并将专业知识融会贯通。
全书内容丰富，为读者提供了经典实验描述、原始论文的数据图表、参考文献等丰富的学习资源。各章首带领读者概览每章学习要点及基本框架，各章知识框详细阐述相关机理和技术进展。章末小结帮助读者及时复习并评价其学习效果。
本书原版由美国科学院院士和美国艺术与科学学院院士骆利群教授编著，其写作风格引人入胜，叙述清晰，所涉及的现代神经生物学重要课题拥有足够的深度，展现出研究前沿，紧密关联的章节让学生能更好地理解各知识点的内容。
本书可作为神经生物学及其相关专业高年级本科生和研究生的教材，也是大学教师和相关领域研究人员不可多得的参考书。

A lively, up-to-date overview of the newest research in biosocial criminology
What is the relationship between criminality and biology? Nineteenth-century phrenologists insisted that criminality was innate, inherent in the offender’s brain matter. While they were eventually repudiated as pseudo-scientists, today the pendulum has swung back. Both criminologists and biologists have begun to speak of a tantalizing but disturbing possibility: that criminality may be inherited as a set of genetic deficits that place one at risk to commit theft, violence, or acts of sexual deviance. But what do these new theories really assert? Are they as dangerous as their forerunners, which the Nazis and other eugenicists used to sterilize, incarcerate, and even execute thousands of supposed “born” criminals? How can we prepare for a future in which leaders may propose crime-control programs based on biology?
In this second edition of The Criminal Brain, Nicole Rafter, Chad Posick, and Michael Rocque describe early biological theories of crime and provide a lively, up-to-date overview of the newest research in biosocial criminology. New chapters introduce the theories of the latter part of the 20th century; apply and critically assess current biosocial and evolutionary theories, the developments in neuro-imaging, and recent progressions in fields such as epigenetics; and finally, provide a vision for the future of criminology and crime policy from a biosocial perspective. The book is a careful, critical examination of each research approach and conclusion. Both compiling and analyzing the body of scholarship devoted to understanding the criminal brain, this volume serves as a condensed, accessible, and contemporary exploration of biological theories of crime and their everyday relevance.

Reviews the most intriguing applications of fractal analysis in neuroscience with a focus on current and future potential, limits, advantages, and disadvantages. Will bring an understanding of fractals to clinicians and researchers also if they do not have a mathematical background, and will serve as a good tool for teaching the translational applications of computational models to students and scholars of different disciplines. This comprehensive collection is organized in four parts:
(1) Basics of fractal analysis;
(2) Applications of fractals to the basic neurosciences;
(3) Applications of fractals to the clinical neurosciences;
(4) Analysis software, modeling and methodology.
Series: Springer Series in Computational Neuroscience

The complexity of the brain and the protean nature of behavior remain the most elusive area of science, but also the most important. van Hemmen and Sejnowski invited 23 experts from the many areas--from evolution to qualia--of systems neuroscience to formulate one problem each. Although each chapter was written independently and can be read separately, together they provide a useful roadmap to the field of systems neuroscience and will serve as a source of inspirations for future explorers of the brain.

In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century" (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; who are stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities; whose limbs have become alien; who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents. If inconceivably strange, these brilliant tales remain, in Dr. Sacks's splendid and sympathetic telling, deeply human. They are studies of life struggling against incredible adversity, and they enable us to enter the world of the neurologically impaired, to imagine with our hearts what it must be to live and feel as they do. A great healer, Sacks never loses sight of medicine's ultimate responsibility: "the suffering, afflicted, fighting human subject."

《创造性:人类创新的科学》对心理学及相关科学领域的一系列广泛研究进行了总结与整合，浅显易懂地介绍了最新的关于创造性的科学研究。近40年来，心理学家、人类学家和社会学家对创造性越来越关注；现在，我们对创造性的了解胜于历史上的任何时期。《创造性：人类创新的科学》不仅关注诸如绘画和写作等艺术领域，也关注科学、舞台表演、商业创新和日常生活中的创造性。
Sawyer的取向是跨学科的。除了考察有关创造性的心理学研究，他还吸收了人类学家对非西方文化中的创造性所开展的研究，社会学家对创造性活动的情景、环境和网络所开展的研究，以及认知神经科学家对脑的研究。他超越了个体研究，关注创造性的社会文化背景，包括协作在创造过程中的作用。

随着认知神经科学的进步，神经法律研究的主题迅速发展。它与法律和法律程序的相关性与依存性，以及神经科学证据在刑法中的可采性，都是重要的话题。帕尔多教授和帕特森教授撰写了一本及时的书，对神经法律研究进行了细致的概念审查。他们带来了令人印象深刻的神经科学与法律的知识，以及一流的哲学敏锐性。他们清晰地写出并公平地展示竞争对手的案例。他们的批判性论点是强有力的和令人信服的，并将深刻影响当前对法律与神经科学之间关系的看法。所有关注认知神经科学与法律相关性的律师和法官，以及所有法学院学生都应该研究《心智、大脑与法律：法律神经科学的概念基础》。