From one of our preeminent neuroscientists: a landmark reflection that spans the biological and social sciences, offering a new way of understanding the origins of life, feeling, and culture.
The Strange Order of Things is a pathbreaking investigation into homeostasis, the condition of that regulates human physiology within the range that makes possible not only the survival but also the flourishing of life. Antonio Damasio makes clear that we descend biologically, psychologically, and even socially from a long lineage that begins with single living cells; that our minds and cultures are linked by an invisible thread to the ways and means of ancient unicellular life and other primitive life-forms; and that inherent in our very chemistry is a powerful force, a striving toward life maintenance that governs life in all its guises, including the development of genes that help regulate and transmit life. In The Strange Order of Things, Damasio gives us a new way of comprehending the world and our place in it.

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● 在20 世纪，笛卡尔推崇的身心二元论占据主流。二元论拒绝承认情绪在理性决策中的作用，认为情绪是理性思考的杂音。然而，既是临床医生又是神经科学家的达马西奥，提出了截然相反的观点，认为人类的理性决策离不开对身体情绪状态的感受。这一论断简单却有力，从根本上颠覆了支配西方几百年的身心二元论。自《笛卡尔的错误》出版以来，西方世界的哲学思想发生了根本性的转折。
● 在《笛卡尔的错误》中，达马西奥教授通过丰富的临床案例，令人信服地证明了情绪在人类理性决策中的重要作用。他提出的躯体标记假设，为身心之间的联结提供了当代科学的确证，把虚无缥缈的心智转变为具体可感的实在之物。为我们思考人类的理性和意识，开辟了一条全新的认识路径。
● 书中丰富的临床案例和富有洞见的理论假设，共同为我们带来一场人类意识探索的盛宴。达马西奥教授带领我们抽丝剥茧、层层深入，带领我们走进人类理性的深层结构之中。
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● 知名神经科学家达马西奥颠覆性巨著，标志着20世纪时代思想的转折，神经科学、心理学和哲学研究因此出现了巨大的转向。
● 一场人类意识探索的盛宴，一次刷新阅读体验的脑力挑战。有如悬疑小说一般娴熟的叙事技巧，在哲学和科学的交界处跳着踢踏舞。
● 揭示情绪的奥秘，重新审视人类理性。打破身心二元论，开启具身新时代。
● 国内外众多知名神经科学家及诺奖得主集体盛赞：北京大学国家发展研究院经济学教授汪丁丁倾情作序！中国心理学会理事长傅小兰、北京大学脑与认知科学中心主任周晓林、南京大学心理系主任周仁来、北京师范大学认知神经科学与学习国家重点实验室主任李武、清华大学经济管理学院教授宁向东、诺贝尔生理学或医学奖得主大卫·休伯尔联袂推荐！
● 达马西奥“情绪与人性”五部曲之一。
● 湛庐文化出品。

意识现代科学代表人物 朱利奥•托诺尼　创新力作
将科学、艺术与想象融为一炉　媲美《哥德尔、埃舍尔、巴赫：集异璧之大成》
脑科学研究专家 唐孝威院士
意识领域知名学者、浙江大学 李恒威教授　撰文推荐
朱利奥•托诺尼是当今最富独创性、最具影响力的神经科学家之一。托诺尼探索意识的方式与其他人不同：由伽利略来讲述自己探索意识的旅程。伽利略曾为科学客观性开辟了道路，在本书中他又致力于使主观经验成为科学的一部分。
伽利略的旅程分三部分，每一部分都有一个向导。第一部分的向导是一位科学家，貌似弗朗西斯•克里克。在他的陪同下，伽利略明白了为什么脑中有些部分很重要、有些部分不重要，为什么睡眠时意识会逐渐消失。第二部分的向导是阿尔图里（伽利略听觉不灵敏，向导的名字其实是艾伦•图灵）。在他的陪同下，伽利略知道了如何通过一种科学理论将第一部分学到的知识统一起来。这种科学理论将意识与整合信息（即Φ）联系起来。第三部分的向导是一个留有胡子的男人，这个人只能是查尔斯•达尔文，不会是其他人。在他的陪同下，伽利略思考这样一个问题：我们的意识如何在历史文化进程中不断进化、发展、深化。意识是我们所拥有的一切，是我们存在的根本。
在《哥德尔、埃舍尔、巴赫：集异璧之大成》之后，没有一本书能够像这本书那样，将科学、艺术与极富独创性的想象交织在一起。本书行文优美，内容引人入胜，将会改变我们思考自身与世界的方式。

《世界图景的机械化》是一部享誉世界的经典科学史名著，曾获得1952年荷兰国家文学奖霍夫特奖。它以机械论观念的产生和对自然的数学描述为主线，深入细致地探讨了从古希腊到牛顿两千多年的科学思想发展，鞭辟入里地分析了使经典物理科学得以产生的各种思想脉络和源流。它从毕达哥拉斯学派开始，经过希腊自然哲学的主要阶段、古代的科学遗产、中世纪和文艺复兴的科学，最后考察了一直到牛顿的经典科学。全书分为五个部分：I 古代的遗产，II 中世纪的科学，III 经典科学的黎明，IV 经典科学的演进，V 结语。书中大部分内容都不为国内学界所熟知。它尤其重视原始文本的阅读和复杂概念的厘清，不回避任何繁难之处，这在同类著作中实属罕见。本书语言清晰凝练，切中问题要害，值得再三研读，对于科学史和哲学史研究者极有价值，任何对思想和历史感兴趣的人都可以从中受益。

Matlab is the accepted standard for scientific computing, used globally in virtually all Neuroscience and Cognitive Psychology laboratories. For instance, SPM, the most used software for the analysis and manipulation of fMRI images in research and clinical practice is fully programmed in matlab, and its use of the possibility to allow for sophisticated software modules to be freely added to the software has established it as the by far dominant software in the field. Many universities now offer, or are beginning to offer matlab introductory courses in their neuroscience and psychology programs. Nevertheless, so far there hasn't been a textbook specific to this market, and the use of the plethora of existing engineering focused Matlab textbooks is notoriously difficult for teaching the package in those environments.
This is the first comprehensive teaching resource and textbook for the teaching of Matlab in the Neurosciences and in Psychology. Matlab is unique in that it can be used to learn the entire empirical and experimental process, including stimulus generation, experimental control, data collection, data analysis and modeling. Thus a wide variety of computational problems can be addressed in a single programming environment. The idea is to empower advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students by allowing them to design and implement their own analytical tools. As students advance in their research careers, they will have achieved the fluency required to understand and adapt more specialized tools as opposed to treating them as "black boxes".
Virtually all computational approaches in the book are covered by using genuine experimental data that are either collected as part of the lab project or were collected in the labs of the authors, providing the casual student with the look and feel of real data. In some rare cases, published data from classical papers are used to illustrate important concepts, giving students a computational understanding of critically important research.
The ability to effectively use computers in research is necessary in an academic environment that is increasingly focused on quantitative issues. Matlab represents an ideal language of scientific computing. It is based on powerful linear algebra structures which lend themselves to empirical problems on the one hand, while at the same time allowing the student to make rapid problem-oriented progress (particularly in terms of visualization of data points) without having to lose focus by worrying too much about memory allocation and other "plumbing" minutiae as would be required in other, more low-level programming languages such as C or C++.
Currently, there are several books that provide introductions to Matlab that are either too generic and fundamental or too irrelevant for neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists who typically face a very circumscribed range of problems in data collection, data analysis and signal processing. Some non-book tutorials and primers that are in use in the community are typically out of date. Matlab versions are usually not backwards compatible. Many commands and functions used in older tutorials and primers, such as "flops" won't work in current versions of Matlab, necessitating a book that is timely and up-to-date.
The complete lack of a relevant resource in this area, combined with a clearly felt need for such a text provided the primary and initial impetus for this project.
The authors provide such a dearly needed resource adapting and pooling materials that developed for and used in highly rated courses involving the use of Matlab in Neuroscience at the University of Chicago. Two co-authors (PW and NH) have presented their respective work on teaching Matlab at national meetings and two of the co-authors (PW and MB) were awarded the coveted University of Chicago's Booth Prize for excellence in teaching these courses. (http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/070524/boothprize.shtml ).
* The first comprehensive textbook on Matlab with a focus for its application in Neuroscience
* Problem based educational approach with many examples from neuroscience and cognitive psychology using real data
* Authors are award winning educators with strong teaching experience
* Instructor's Website with figurebank, additional problems and examples, solutions, etc

《生物心理学(第10版)(通用教材版)》是研究行为生物基础的一门科学，它试图从生物学和进化学的角度对感知觉、认知和行为进行解释。
《生物心理学(第10版)(通用教材版)》取材广泛，综合了比较心理学、生理心理学、心理药物学、神经心理学以及认知神经科学等诸多学科的最新研究成果，详细探讨了大脑与神经系统的解剖、感知觉加工、运动控制、动机情绪、精神障碍、学习与记忆、语言和认知等方面的理论及观点，着重解释了行为及心理现象背后的神经过程和神经机制。
詹姆斯•卡拉特擅长用浅显有趣的文字讲解科学道理，该书被誉为本领域教材中的“首选”，詹姆斯•卡拉特也因此被称为生物心理学领域内的“戴维•迈尔斯。
《生物心理学(第10版)(通用教材版)》适合心理学、生物学、认知神经科学等学科的广大师生和研究者使用。

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.

This is the most authoritative introduction to the brain, its structure, function, development, and control of behavior available today. It presents both a comprehensive summary of the state of the science and a full discussion of historical issues in the study of the brain. Neuroanatomy, cell and molecular mechanisms, mechanisms, of signaling, and development are thoroughly described in the context of the cognitive approaches to behavior. Thoroughly revised, with a new full-color art program, this text was re-designed to be more user friendly. Also featured is an expanded treatment of the development of the nervous system, the genetic basis of neurological and psychiatric diseases, the cognitive neuroscience of perception, and icon channel mechanisms.

An essential reconsideration of one of the most far-reaching theories in modern neuroscience and psychology.
In 1992, a group of neuroscientists from Parma, Italy, reported a new class of brain cells discovered in the motor cortex of the macaque monkey. These cells, later dubbed mirror neurons, responded equally well during the monkey’s own motor actions, such as grabbing an object, and while the monkey watched someone else perform similar motor actions. Researchers speculated that the neurons allowed the monkey to understand others by simulating their actions in its own brain.
Mirror neurons soon jumped species and took human neuroscience and psychology by storm. In the late 1990s theorists showed how the cells provided an elegantly simple new way to explain the evolution of language, the development of human empathy, and the neural foundation of autism. In the years that followed, a stream of scientific studies implicated mirror neurons in everything from schizophrenia and drug abuse to sexual orientation and contagious yawning.
In The Myth of Mirror Neurons, neuroscientist Gregory Hickok reexamines the mirror neuron story and finds that it is built on a tenuous foundation—a pair of codependent assumptions about mirror neuron activity and human understanding. Drawing on a broad range of observations from work on animal behavior, modern neuroimaging, neurological disorders, and more, Hickok argues that the foundational assumptions fall flat in light of the facts. He then explores alternative explanations of mirror neuron function while illuminating crucial questions about human cognition and brain function: Why do humans imitate so prodigiously? How different are the left and right hemispheres of the brain? Why do we have two visual systems? Do we need to be able to talk to understand speech? What’s going wrong in autism? Can humans read minds?
The Myth of Mirror Neurons not only delivers an instructive tale about the course of scientific progress—from discovery to theory to revision—but also provides deep insights into the organization and function of the human brain and the nature of communication and cognition.

The Aesthetic Brain takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey through the world of beauty, pleasure, and art. Chatterjee uses neuroscience to probe how an aesthetic sense is etched in our minds and evolutionary psychology to explain why aesthetic concerns feature centrally in our lives. Along the way, Chatterjee addresses fundamental questions: What is beauty? Is beauty universal? How is beauty related to pleasure? What is art? Should art be beautiful? Do we have an instinct for art? Chatterjee starts by probing the reasons that we find people, places, and even numbers beautiful. At the root of beauty, he finds, is pleasure. He then examines our pleasures by dissecting why we want and why we like food, sex, and money and how these rewards relate to aesthetic encounters. His ruminations on beauty and pleasure prepare him and the reader to face art. He wanders through the problems of defining art, understanding contemporary art, and interpreting ancient art. He explores why art, something that seems so useless, also feels fundamental to our humanity. Replete with facts, anecdotes, and analogies, this empirical guide to aesthetics offers scientific answers without deflating the wonders of beauty and art.

意识是科学上至今还未解决的超级秘密之一。什么是意识？意识是怎样产生的？意识有什么益处？只有人才有意识吗？为什么我们有那么多的动作并不需要意识参与其中？回答这些问题，将使我们对人之所以为人有全新的认识。
本书是作者与克里克对上述这些问题长期合作研究的结果。本书探讨了动物和人主观心智的生物学基础，探讨并提出了一种意识研究的框架——用实验方法找出表达意识的神经相关物。全书以视知觉研究为切入点，结合注意、记忆、自动行为、失认症和“裂脑人”等病理现象的研究，总结了意识研究的科学基础，概括指出了我们知识的不足之处和今后研究的方向。本书反映了继克里克《惊人的假说》之后，他们合作研究的新进展。本书的语言风格亦以洗练生动见长。

书中作者追溯了维也纳的儿时经历引起他对记忆的强烈兴趣，这一兴趣首先体现在对历史和精神分析的爱好，然后转到脑生物学领域，跨越认知心理学、神经科学、细胞生物学等多个学科，最终从细胞和分子层面上破译了人类记忆密码，从而获得2000年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。
为了满足人们对追寻记忆痕迹的好奇和渴求，坎德尔教授娓娓道来，把个人成长融入科学发展历程，讲述他传奇的人生探索之旅，我们可以从中领略大师的治学之道和大家风范。
这是一位科学巨匠走过的半个多世纪的心路历程。他对前辈和同行的尊重与谦和，对年轻一代的提携和鼓励，对故土维也纳的眷念，以及身为犹太人所特有的民族自豪感，这一切都深深地打动了我们，一种发自内心的敬意和钦佩之情油然而生。

欢迎翻开第三版!每当像认知神经科学这样的新领域出现时，人们对它的前途并不总是信心满满，甚至怀疑它会不会昙花一现。对新领域的新鲜热情就像看着一只第一次站立起来的小鹿一样，她能行吗?这崭新的生命能否发育长大?这新的生命中能放射出真正的意义吗？10年后的今天，认知神经科学已经空前繁荣。我们可以从诸多方面体察这种进步：领先的大学已经着手实施创新举措，旨在发展专门的认知神经科学研究方向，以便为研究者提供这一领域研究所需的工具和跨学科研究的机会；新杂志每年都在创办，以适应认?神经科学新分支中文献数量的指数型增长；由于与会者人数激增，认知神经科学学会的年会年年爆满：从第一次会议时的400人陡增至2008年第十五次会议时的1800多人。

Following up his 1996 "The Emotional Brain, " the world-renowned brain expert presents a groundbreaking work that tells a more profound story: how the little spaces between the neurons--the brain's synapses--are the channels through which we think, feel, imagine, act, and remember. In 1996 Joseph LeDoux's "The Emotional Brain" presented a revelatory examination of the biological bases of our emotions and memories. Now, the world-renowned expert on the brain has produced with a groundbreaking work that tells a more profound story: how the little spaces between the neurons-the brain's synapses--are the channels through which we think, act, imagine, feel, and remember. Synapses encode the essence of personality, enabling each of us to function as a distinctive, integrated individual from moment to moment. Exploring the functioning of memory, the synaptic basis of mental illness and drug addiction, and the mechanism of self-awareness, "Synaptic Self" is a provocative and mind-expanding work that is destined to become a classic.

左脑右脑谁说了算？是你在决定还是你的大脑在替你决定？人该为自己的罪行负责吗？
开创认知神经科学的著名思想家加扎尼加被誉为脑科学界的斯蒂芬•霍金。他在这本书里用“睿智而不夸张”的语言从脑科学的角度阐释自由意志问题，讲述了人类大脑的作用机制、意识的来源、社会意识的进化以及自由意志观念对于整个社会的影响。他告诉我们，人的思维是大脑整体运作的结果，既有从上而下也有从下而上的机制。本书还涉及物理学、社会学中那些会决定“我”的部分。
这是一本可以改变你的世界观的书。

诺贝尔奖获得者坎德尔领衔主编，多位神经科学泰斗级人物共同编著
国际上最权威神经科学教科书，被称为“神经科学圣经”
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 国际著名神经生物学家蒲慕明、
 北京市神经再生及修复研究重点实验室主任徐群渊
 北京大学心理学系主任周晓林
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我们每天的选择，真的是自己决定的吗？谁才是大脑真正的主宰？
《大脑、演化、人》作者葛詹尼加，将用最新的脑科学研究来解答！
我们常烦恼午餐要吃什麽，左思右想才做出决定。但是我们每天的选择，真的是自己决定的吗？如果这个世界遵循着物理法则而运转，我们的脑自然也不例外，那麽我们还有可能控制自己的行为吗？我们真的有自由意志吗？
认知神经科学之父葛詹尼加，在《大脑、演化、人》中问了「是什麽关键，造就如此奇妙的人类？」之後，再次提出关於人类生命本质的大哉问。他在这本发人深省的书里，透过尖端的科学研究，深入浅出地探讨各种和自由意志有关的问题：
我们可以控制自己的大脑吗？我有可能叫大脑别再胡思乱想了吗？
我们的脑分成左右两半，会不会有两个自由意志呢？左右脑不会打架吗？
我们如何做出选择？是我们的灵魂在主导一切吗？
这些关於意识和心智的问题，过去一直藏在大脑的黑盒子里，神秘而深不可测；自由意志和决定论者之间的争战，也从古希腊时期开始延烧，无可定论。如今，我们终於有了实际的脑神经研究证据，能够解释自由意志与大脑之间的关系。葛詹尼加巧妙地整合了多年来的科学研究结果，清楚说明关於大脑和心智的最新发现。他用汽车和交通来比喻我们的大脑和意识：大脑就像汽车一样，由各种零件组成，有它固定的运作模式；而当这许许多多的汽车奔跑在道路上，就形成了交通——就像我们的神经传导形成了意识一样！
这是一本非比寻常的书，涵盖神经科学、心理学，甚至探讨了脑科学所涉及的道德与法律层面，涵意深远。跟着大师的思考脉络，你会惊叹於人类大脑的奥妙，更将真正理解「自由意志」所代表的意义！

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。

Widely praised for its student-friendly style and exceptional artwork and pedagogy, Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain is a leading undergraduate textbook on the biology of the brain and the systems that underlie behavior. This edition provides increased coverage of taste and smell, circadian rhythms, brain development, and developmental disorders and includes new information on molecular mechanisms and functional brain imaging. Path of Discovery boxes, written by leading researchers, highlight major current discoveries. In addition, readers will be able to assess their knowledge of neuroanatomy with the Illustrated Guide to Human Neuroanatomy, which includes a perforated self-testing workbook. This edition's robust ancillary package includes a bound-in student CD-ROM, an Instructor's Resource CD-ROM, a Connection Website, and LiveAdvise: Neuroscience online student tutoring.