Tool-making or culture, language or religious belief: ever since Darwin, thinkers have struggled to identify what fundamentally differentiates human beings from other animals. In this much-anticipated book, Michael Tomasello weaves his twenty years of comparative studies of humans and great apes into a compelling argument that cooperative social interaction is the key to our cognitive uniqueness. Once our ancestors learned to put their heads together with others to pursue shared goals, humankind was on an evolutionary path all its own.

Tomasello argues that our prehuman ancestors, like today's great apes, were social beings who could solve problems by thinking. But they were almost entirely competitive, aiming only at their individual goals. As ecological changes forced them into more cooperative living arrangements, early humans had to coordinate their actions and communicate their thoughts with collaborative partners. Tomasello's "shared intentionality hypothesis" captures how these more socially complex forms of life led to more conceptually complex forms of thinking. In order to survive, humans had to learn to see the world from multiple social perspectives, to draw socially recursive inferences, and to monitor their own thinking via the normative standards of the group. Even language and culture arose from the preexisting need to work together. What differentiates us most from other great apes, Tomasello proposes, are the new forms of thinking engendered by our new forms of collaborative and communicative interaction.

A Natural History of Human Thinking is the most detailed scientific analysis to date of the connection between human sociality and cognition.

Easy-to-apply, scientifically-based approaches for engaging students in the classroom Cognitive scientist Dan Willingham focuses his acclaimed research on the biological and cognitive basis of learning. His book will help teachers improve their practice by explaining how they and their students think and learn. It reveals-the importance of story, emotion, memory, context, and routine in building knowledge and creating lasting learning experiences. Nine, easy-to-understand principles with clear applications for the classroom Includes surprising findings, such as that intelligence is malleable, and that you cannot develop "thinking skills" without facts How an understanding of the brain's workings can help teachers hone their teaching skills "Mr. Willingham's answers apply just as well outside the classroom. Corporate trainers, marketers and, not least, parents -anyone who cares about how we learn-should find his book valuable reading."
—Wall Street Journal

《现代汉语动名互转的认知研究》稿从认知语言学的角度对现代汉语中动词和名次的互相转化问题进行了系统深入的研究这种研究角度跟传统的结构主义语言学有根本的区别，从这一全新的角度出发去审视传统语言研究中长期悬而未决的问题，我们对这些问题就有了新的更贴近语言事实的看法。对描写出来的语言现象进行比较合理的解释，是《现代汉语动名互转的认知研究》不同于传统的研究动名转化的文章的不同之处。

Acclaimed one of the "seminal books...comparable in ultimate importance to...Galileo or Malthus or Rousseau or Mill", Cybernetics was judged by twenty-seven historians, economists, educators, and philosophers to be one of those books published during the "past four decades," which may have a substantial impact on public thought and action in the years ahead." -- Saturday Review

塞尔写下了一部有力的、清晰的、易懂的与令人着迷的导论性著作。此书比任何别的文献都更为令人信服地解释了塞尔所持有的如下这个离经叛道的颠覆性观点：无论是唯物主义还是二元论，都是谬误的。他以充满活力的姿态探索了那些心灵哲学领域中的重大议题——与此同时，他还一直保持着对于他所聚焦的心灵问题的最深刻的洞见。
译者前言
中译本前言
致谢
导论 我为什么写这本书
第一章 心灵哲学中的12个问题
第二章 转向唯物主义
第三章 反对唯物主义的论证
第四章 意识(上)——意识与身一心问题
第五章 意识(下)——意识的结构与神经生物学
第六章 意向性
第七章 心灵因果关系
第八章 自由意志
第九章 无意识问题以及对于行为的解释
第十章 知觉
第十一章 自我
尾声哲学与科学的世界观
术语索引
人名索引

作者围绕“的”的性质与功能展开讨论，秉承认知与功能学派的基本理念，并更加注重即时语言加工过程中和语境相关的社会认知因素，即认知的在线性和社会性。在沈家煊先生新近提出的汉语词类包含模式的基础上，从“的”字结构是参照体–目标结构这一理论原点出发，针对不同论题，选取相应的研究方法，尝试系统回答“的”字研究中的种种问题。 全书的核心观点是：“的”是参照体标记，起到提高参照体的指别度的作用，由此派生出诸多其他功能。 主要内容有：从全新的“认知入场”视角阐述“的”在名词短语中的基本功能。基于复合词连续统、概念整合等观念探讨“的”字隐现的规律。在反映即时言语认知场景的语篇中寻找制约多项定语的“的”的隐现和位置的规律，类似的方法也应用到对“N的V”的考察。分析从名词短语中扩展到事态句末的“的”。以词类功能专门化的观点论证“的”的非词尾属性以及几个“的”之间的共性。旁及生成语法，以后置词方案为“的”字结构的中心语问题提出新的解答。也兼及汉语史，在上古汉语的“之”和“的”的对比中拓展研究。

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.

《神经信息学(神经系统的理论和模型)》把半个世纪以来有实验依据的神经系统(脑)中的主要理论和模型集中起来，给研究生们提供理论训练。这些理论和模型中有重要基础理论意义的，大都取材于诺贝尔奖获得者的工作（Hodgkin、Huxley、Hartline、Gabor、Bekesy、Eccles、Crick、Edelmen、Sperry……），也包括对信息科学、工程应用有重大影响的假设、理论和算法（Hebb学习律、平行分布式理论框架……）。
《神经信息学(神经系统的理论和模型)》共分三篇：第一篇包括固定结构的神经系统的理论模型，涵盖神经元模型、感受器的数学描述、节律产生和视觉信息加工等；第二篇是关于学习和记忆的理论模型，包括}tebb学习律、平行分布式理论框架、Hopfield模型以及短时程的突触修正规律，清晰讲述了神经系统的理论研究对人工智能、信息科学工程应用的意义；第三篇介绍神经科学和脑科学中当前的几个热点，包括神经编码、功能柱的结构和功能、脑的非线性和意识问题。
《神经信息学(神经系统的理论和模型)》可作为神经科学、认知科学、心理学等专业的研究生教材，也可作为人工视觉、神经假肢、人工智能、信息科学专业研究人员的参考书。

The New York Times best-selling author of Physics of the Impossible , Physics of the Future and Hyperspace tackles the most fascinating and complex object in the known universe: the human brain .

For the first time in history, the secrets of the living brain are being revealed by a battery of high tech brain scans devised by physicists. Now what was once solely the province of science fiction has become a startling reality. Recording memories, telepathy, videotaping our dreams, mind control, avatars, and telekinesis are not only possible; they already exist.

The Future of the Mind gives us an authoritative and compelling look at the astonishing research being done in top laboratories around the world—all based on the latest advancements in neuroscience and physics. One day we might have a "smart pill" that can enhance our cognition; be able to upload our brain to a computer, neuron for neuron; send thoughts and emotions around the world on a "brain-net"; control computers and robots with our mind; push the very limits of immortality; and perhaps even send our consciousness across the universe.

Dr. Kaku takes us on a grand tour of what the future might hold, giving us not only a solid sense of how the brain functions but also how these technologies will change our daily lives. He even presents a radically new way to think about "consciousness" and applies it to provide fresh insight into mental illness, artificial intelligence and alien consciousness.

With Dr. Kaku's deep understanding of modern science and keen eye for future developments, The Future of the Mind is a scientific tour de force--an extraordinary, mind-boggling exploration of the frontiers of neuroscience.

this is not so much a book about art;it's more a book about brain.

当代国外语言学与应用语言学文库》首批54种自2000年9月问世以来，取得很大成功，首印5000套供不应求，10月份便分开重印6000套。能在短短的几个月内出版发行如此宏大规模的语言学著作，这在我国学术出版发行史上是不多见的。自出版以来，许多单位和个人争相订购，研究生和大学生生把《文库》视为良师益友，教师无论老中青都把《文库》视为知识更新的源泉。实践证明，外研社推出的《文库》受到了国内语言学界和外语教学界的普遍好评，它将成为推动我国语言学教学与研究和外语教学与研究的一个宝库。
在成功出版《文库》首批54种的基础上，外研社现在又推出《文库》第二批58种。《文库》第二批具有五大特色：一、由58部英文原著组成，所覆盖的学科从首批的26个增加到现在的33个，新增学科包括语言学史、语言哲学、认知语言学、人类语言学、语言的起源、语法化学说等，能更广泛地满足读者的需求；二、收入了当代语言学大师索绪尔、萨丕尔、布龙菲尔德、韩礼德、乔姆斯基、奥斯汀、格莱斯、利奇等名家的最有影响的伤口具有更高的权威性；三、增加了牛津大学出版社、哈佛大学出版社等世界知名出版社出版的语言学经典著作；四、依然配有专家导读，专家的队伍比首批更为强大；五、世界著名语言学家乔姆斯基教授和我国著名语言学家沈家煊教授作序。
本《文库》是一个大型的、开放性的系列丛书，它将对我国语言教学与研究和外语教学与研究起到积极的推动作用。今后，外研社还将继续引进，争取把国外最新的、最具影响的语言学和应用语言学著作不断地奉献给广大读者。

"Its publication should be a major event for cognitive linguistics and should pose a major challenge for cognitive science. In addition, it should have repercussions in a variety of disciplines, ranging from anthropology and psychology to epistemology and the philosophy of science. . . . Lakoff asks: What do categories of language and thought reveal about the human mind? Offering both general theory and minute details, Lakoff shows that categories reveal a great deal."—David E. Leary, American Scientist

This book is based on the results of research in language typology, and motivated by the need for a theory to explain them. Croft proposes intimate links between syntactic and semantic structures, and argues that the basic elements of any language are not syntactic but rather syntactic-semantic "Gestalts." He puts forward a new approach to syntactic representation and a new model of how language and languages work.

著名语言学家Stephen C。Levinson的语用学理论我国已多有介绍和评述。从20世纪90年代开始，Levinson的兴趣又转向了空间认知及思维和语言的关系等领域，先后发表一系列关于空间认知的文章。<语言和认知空间--认知多样性探索>就是他近10年来对语言和空间认知关系进行研究的重要成果。该书涉及人类学、语言学和心理学等多种学科，通过对多种语言和文化中的认知模式进行探讨，确认语言和认知空间之间存在很强的相互联系。全书共七章，我们逐一简述。
导读
原书目录
插图列表
表格列表
前言
致谢
第一章 知识背景：西方空间概念两千年
第二章 参照框架
第三章 语言的多样性
第四章 绝对心理
第五章 心理多样性
第六章 超越语言：寻找路径和指明方向的参照框架
第七章 语言与思维
注释
参考列表
语言索引
作者索引
主题索引

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。

编辑推荐：
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只有七秒钟记忆的人该怎么活下去？
音乐节拍能让跛足的人扔掉双拐？
五分钟一个科学传奇，不容喘息的震撼体验！
人气爆棚的神经学医生萨克斯，风靡全球的科普巨作！
《纽约时报》畅销榜力荐人文经典！亚马逊书店度好书五星推荐！
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或许你还不熟悉萨克斯医生，但他的研究或许会让你觉得大开眼界：如果失去了一只耳朵，会影响我们“收听”立体声效吗？为什么我们都快忘光了小时候的记忆，却还可以完整地哼完童年的歌谣？网络上说的死亡音乐和幻觉音乐是真实存在的吗？电视剧里用熟悉的音乐将瘫痪的病人唤醒的奇迹，是真实发生过的吗？
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温格瑞尔和施密特的《认知语言学导论》是最早出现、流行较广的认知语言学教科书。它在经验观、凸显观和注意观基本框架下，全面而深入地讨论了认知语言学的研究方法和内容，系统地阐发了认知语言学的基本概念和基本原理；既有认知语言学理论的一般介绍，也有对一些重要专题的深入探讨；不但反映了认知语言学的最新发展，而且也不乏作者自己的研究成果和创见。内容丰富，见解新颖，注重实用，是读者学习和研究认知语言学的蓝本和重要文献。