心理学导论（也称普通心理学、心理学入门）是美国高等院校选修人数最多的课程之一，与人们的日常生活息息相关。《心理学导论》（Exploring Psychology）由美国著名心理学教科书作者戴维·迈尔斯（David Myers）撰写，他在所著Psychology的基础上，对篇幅进行了适当的缩减，使其不仅针对心理学专业基础课教学，同时也能更好地满足非心理学专业学生和普通读者的需要。
《心理学导论》自出版以来，一直位列美国心理学教科书畅销榜前列，是美国高等院校中使用范围最广的普通心理学教材之一。《心理学导论》系统介绍了心理学的各个主要分支领域，由于原书体量较大，为便于读者携带和课堂使用，拆分为上下两册，上册主要涵盖了生物心理学、发展心理学和认知心理学的内容，下册主要涵盖了人格心理学、社会心理学和异常心理学的内容。

Experiments With People showcases 28 intriguing studies that have significantly advanced our understanding of human thought and social behavior. These studies, mostly laboratory experiments, shed light on the irrationality of everyday thinking, the cruelty and indifference of 'ordinary' people, the operation of the unconscious mind, and the intimate bond between the self and others. This book tells the inside story of how social psychological research gets done and why it matters. Each chapter focuses on the details and implications of a single study, but cites related research and real-life examples. All chapters are self-contained, allowing them to be read in any order. Each chapter is divided into: *Background--provides the rationale for the study; *What They Did--outlines the design and procedure used; *What They Found--summarizes the results obtained; *So What?--articulates the significance of those results; *Afterthoughts--explores the broader issues raised by the study; and *Revelation--encapsulates the 'take-home message' of each chapter. This paperback is ideal as a main or supplementary text for courses in social psychology, introductory psychology, or research design.

It is not unusual for a festschrift to include offerings from several areas of study, but it is highly unusual for those areas to cross disciplinary lines. This book, in doing just that, is a testimony to Bob Abelson's impact on the disciplines of social psychology, artificial intelligence and cognitive science, and the applied areas of political psychology and decision-making. The contributors demonstrate that their association with Abelson, whether as students or colleagues, has resulted in an impressive intellectual cross-fertilization.

【推荐】
 积极心理学领域第一本综合性的教科书，迄今为止国内第一本最具权威性、最全面的积极心理学著作。
 作者之一斯奈德是积极心理学的开创者之一，他与本书另一位作者沙恩洛佩斯合著的《积极心理学手册》奠定了积极心理学的学科地位。
 50多个案例故事，以及“个人小实验”和“生活提升策略”两个专栏帮助读者将积极心理学付诸实践，发展个人优势、增进幸福感和建立丰盛的人际关系。
 考察文化对于积极心理学的影响，首次系统论述积极心理学的中国传统文化根源，这在积极心理学著作中独一无二的。
 当代版税收入最高的心理学家、《社会心理学》作者戴维•迈尔斯特别推荐。
 清华大学心理学系主任、中国国际积极心理学大会主席彭凯平教授作序推荐。
【内容提要】
作为心理学的一个新兴领域，积极心理学是揭示人类的优势和促进其积极机能的应用科学，致力于识别和理解人类优势和美德，帮助人们提升幸福感和生活得更有意义。
《积极心理学：探索人类优势的科学与实践》由积极心理学的两位开创者C.R.斯奈德和沙恩•洛佩斯撰写，是积极心理学领域第一部综合性的教科书，也是目前最具权威性的积极心理学专著。《积极心理学：探索人类优势的科学与实践》不仅全面地总结文献，而且精心设计了练习和专栏，鼓励读者将积极心理学原理应用于实践，由此将积极心理科学带入生活。书中所阐述的主题包括如何应用积极心理学来改进学校教育和工作，以及如何提升人们相互协作的生活方式。
本书不但适合于心理学专业学生学习积极心理学，也是积极心理学领域的研究者和学者的必备手册，同时也可以帮助普通读者发展个人优势、增进幸福感和建立丰盛的人际关系。
【评论】
积极心理学正日趋成熟，本书应运而生。两位作者斯奈德和洛佩斯都是积极心理学运动的领导者，他们共同撰写了《积极心理学手册》，这部巨著奠定了积极心理学的学科地位。斯奈德的著述丰富，教学成就斐然，你可以相信本书是一部及时而一流的著作。
——戴维• 迈尔斯 美国霍普学院心理学教授
当代版税收入最高的心理学家
本书第一作者C.R. 斯奈德是积极心理学领域的领军人物之一，由他和沙恩• 洛佩斯编写的《积极心理学手册》（2002）以及这部《积极心理学：探索人类优势的科学与实践》，是近年来该领域里程碑式成就。这部权威教科书中译本的出版，对推动我国积极心理学的发展也必将有着积极的意义。
——彭凯平 清华大学心理学系主任
美国加州大学伯克利分校心理学系终身教授
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心的境界与幸福的梦
清华大学心理学系主任
彭凯平教授
我幸福吗？什么是真实的幸福？如何实现幸福？有没有脱离红尘的幸福？
在每天看似简单重复的日子里，总有那么几个须臾之间，我们每个人都会产生这几个自己无法回答的问题。往往在答案还没有明了之前，我们已不得不被时间的双手推入到另一个开始。2012 年10 月，中国中央电视台播出了一个叫《你幸福吗？》的节目，采访街头普通的中国人，记录下一些生动有趣、朴实无华，但有时又令人意外的回答。它表明，我们中国人关心幸福，向往幸福，可并不总是知道什么是幸福。
但这并没有妨碍幸福在中国成为一个网络流行词。从积极心理学的历史来看，当一个国家的人均GDP 低于 3000 美元时，人们主要关注衣、食、住、行等物质需求。但是，当人均GDP 超过3000 美元之后，人们就开始更多地关注心理需求，比如精神、文化和幸福的追求。中国已在2008 年越过了这个门槛。在过去几十年里，人们相互的问候往往是：“你吃了吗？”，如今，中国人可以说开始问：“你幸福吗？”这次中国最权威的电视台没有再像以前那样，只是聚焦在国家大事上，而是关注普通老百姓心中的幸福，这是一个观念的变化，也是时代进步的一个缩影。
中国社会已经进入到了现代化时代，现代化的时代会产生现代化的问题。幸福与我们渐行渐远，可以说是现代化的一个重要悖论。比如说，中国的学校已经成为幸福的一大“误区”，因为在竞争异常激烈的应试教育系统下，孩子们的心理状态实在是令人堪忧。甚至有些孩子希望有灾害发生，那样自己可以不用去学校上学了。
中国的企业深受富士康事件的触动，开始开展“幸福企业”运动，以提升员工的工作满意度。“幸福女性”“幸福人生”“幸福社区”“幸福力”之类的课程开始流行，任何名字里带着“幸福”两个字的书都在热卖。但这场幸福热潮也有消极的一面。这就是这个领域基本上已经成为成功励志学和心灵鸡汤的天下。还有一个更讽刺的现象叫“ 被幸福”，意思是地方政府按自己的意愿去定义幸福，并修改统计数据，假造老百姓幸福的表象。
这些问题都可以由“积极心理学”来纠正。积极心理学是由一群杰出的心理学家在1998 年创立的，他们的代表人物是宾夕法尼亚大学心理学教授马丁•塞利格曼，他把日常生活中的“幸福”概念，转变成一门结论可靠、方法严谨的科学概念。塞利格曼在担任美国心理学会主席后，更是全力推动积极心理学运动。积极心理学比“幸福学”的含义更广泛。它研究人的所有积极心态，比如积极情绪、优秀品格、道德美德、幸福组织、创新卓越等人类美好的心理活动。它教人如何愉快生活，如何做一个善良、有道德、有理性的人。积极心理学倡导人首先要正心，这是做任何事最重要的核心。塞利格曼在他的新书《持续的幸福》里提出“全面幸福”，来替代通常所说的“感觉幸福”。他把幸福定义为五个因素：正面情绪、身心投入、良好关系、人生意义和生活成就，而品格优势则是它们的共同基础。他认为，这五个因素（和整个积极心理学）代表了人在不受外界诱惑或强迫时会选择追求的目标。
积极心理学还有利于社会的稳定与和谐，以及中国梦的实现。积极幸福带来的不仅是个人、情绪上的益处，还有道德和社会上的益处。例如，幸福的人有更多的利他倾向，更可能去帮助别人。幸福的人更少种族歧视、更少攀比，并且更容易宽恕别人。总之，幸福能让人成为更好的公民。一个更幸福的中国，也将是一个更有创造力的中国。当你害怕、有压力或郁闷时，你脑中运行的是分析批判性思维。当你的情绪更正面时，你就能更好地完成创造性任务。
因此，积极心理学已经变成中国的一个时尚概念。从百度的点击率分析来看，2009 年前没有多少人关注积极心理学，2009 年开始出现很多有关积极心理学的点击。2010 年点击率达到了一个高峰，正好与清华大学举办的第一届中国国际积极心理学大会同步；第二次高峰是去年第二届中国国际积极心理学大会，现在积极心理学在中国百度每年的点击率已经上万。
积极心理学的未来在中国一定很美好，它能让我们认识到人性的积极，知晓幸福的含义，领悟幸福的感受，最重要的是学习到如何追求幸福的方法。 希望每个中国人都能做一个幸福的人，共同建设我们幸福的大家，实现我们中华民族的梦想。中国梦，是中国人的蓬勃发展之梦。积极心理学是研究人类蓬勃发展的科学，它可以提升幸福，让中国人更坚韧、更充实，让中国社会更稳定、更繁荣。梦是心理的现象，梦也是心的寄托。中国梦，一定是一个积极心理的梦。
本书第一作者C.R. 斯奈德是积极心理学领域的领军人物之一，由他和沙恩•洛佩斯编写的《积极心理学手册》（2002）以及这部《积极心理学：探索人类优势的科学与实践》，是近年来该领域里程碑式成就。这部权威教科书中译本的出版，对推动我国积极心理学的发展也必将有着积极的意义。

"The nervous system is made up of a large number of interacting elements. To understand how such a complex system functions requires the construction and analysis of computational models at many different levels. This book provides a step-by-step account of how to model the neuron and neural circuitry to understand the nervous system at all levels, from ion channels to networks. Starting with a simple model of the neuron as an electrical circuit, gradually more details are added to include the effects of neuronal morphology, synapses, ion channels and intracellular signaling. The principle of abstraction is explained through chapters on simplifying models, and how simplified models can be used in networks. This theme is continued in a final chapter on modeling the development of the nervous system. Requiring an elementary background in neuroscience and some high school mathematics, this textbook is an ideal basis for a course on computational neuroscience." (Amazon)
"This is a wonderful, clear and compelling text on mathematically-minded computational modelling in neuroscience. It is beautifully aimed at those engaged in capturing quantitatively, and thus simulating, complex neural phenomena at multiple spatial and temporal scales, from intracellular calcium dynamics and stochastic ion channels, through compartmental modelling, all the way to aspects of development. It takes particular care to define the processes, potential outputs and even some pitfalls of modelling; and can be recommended for containing the key lessons and pointers for people seeking to build their own computational models. By eschewing issues of coding and information processing, it largely hews to concrete biological data, and it nicely avoids sacrificing depth for breadth. It is very suitably pitched as a Master's level text, and its two appendices, on mathematical methods and software resources, will rapidly become dog-eared."
Peter Dayan, University College London

这是――本写给“有智慧的普通人”的书。 20世纪50年代，罗杰斯成名以后在各地作演讲，本书即主要根据这些演讲和未发表的文章整理而成，体现了罗杰斯的基本思想。 本书包括罗杰斯与各种各样群体的对话，对人们善意的提问和攻击性的挑战的回答，主题涉及罗杰斯的个人背景与生活经历、关于助益性人际关系尤其是治疗关系的实质和要素、个人形成的方向以及过程、人生哲学的讨论、对心理治疗的研究，还包括当事人中心治疗观在学校教育、家庭生活、企业组织沟通甚至国际关系领域的应用含义。 罗杰斯的声音――充满爱心和激情，自信而恳切――将《个人形成论》中的多篇论文连成了一个整体。与我们对话的这个人知识异常丰富，而且又十分耐心，他仔细聆听别人，也聆听自己。这种全神贯注的聆听有利于促进个人的成长，也有利于我们思考这个宏大的理论问题：成为一个人究竟意味着什么?

本书立足于福克斯学派基本的团体理论和实践模式。两位作者以此为基石，构建了当代团体分析实践的画卷，引领读者认识在此领域中快速发展的新思想。我认为本书是迄今为止最全面、完整的临床团体分析教科书。
本书主要讲述了分析性团体治疗实践中会遇到的多种议题和任务。两位作者以在团体治疗的教学和督导中善于列举临床案例而著称，读者会在书中阅读到大量临床案例。我特别欣赏他们在讲述“评估”“为团体治疗准备患者”以及“新团体的早期阶段”这些重要内容的技术问题时生动的对话。“行动中的团体”这一部分戏剧性地重现了这个领域内两位资深巧匠的工艺，提醒我们在仔细维持必要设置的情况下关注福克斯学派模式的价值、优点和治疗效果，以启迪心灵。

If you've ever wondered about the mind and behavior, the Norton Psychology Reader is the perfect place to start. From the biological basis of emotion to the psychological basis of culture, from the nature of nurture to the nature of intelligence, with selections by leading scientists with a knack for writing—including Steven Pinker, Joseph Ledoux, Antonio Damasio, Oliver Sacks, and Robert Sapolsky—and top-notch journalists with an uncanny sense for psychology—including Natalie Angier, Daniel Goleman, and Sylvia Nasar—the Norton Psychology Reader presents the best that psychology has to offer. Edited by noted New York University psychologist Gary Marcus, the Norton Psychology Reader is an unparalleled guided tour through the modern science of the human mind and a perfect companion to any introductory psychology course, filled with insights completely accessible to the interested lay reader.

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Describes the theoretical background behind Statistical Parametric Mapping and provides operational guidelines and technical details on data analysis.
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In an age where the amount of data collected from brain imaging is increasing constantly, it is of critical importance to analyse those data within an accepted framework to ensure proper integration and comparison of the information collected. This book describes the ideas and procedures that underlie the analysis of signals produced by the brain. The aim is to understand how the brain works, in terms of its functional architecture and dynamics. This book provides the background and methodology for the analysis of all types of brain imaging data, from functional magnetic resonance imaging to magnetoencephalography. Critically, Statistical Parametric Mapping provides a widely accepted conceptual framework which allows treatment of all these different modalities. This rests on an understanding of the brain's functional anatomy and the way that measured signals are caused experimentally. The book takes the reader from the basic concepts underlying the analysis of neuroimaging data to cutting edge approaches that would be difficult to find in any other source. Critically, the material is presented in an incremental way so that the reader can understand the precedents for each new development. This book will be particularly useful to neuroscientists engaged in any form of brain mapping; who have to contend with the real-world problems of data analysis and understanding the techniques they are using. It is primarily a scientific treatment and a didactic introduction to the analysis of brain imaging data. It can be used as both a textbook for students and scientists starting to use the techniques, as well as a reference for practicing neuroscientists. The book also serves as a companion to the software packages that have been developed for brain imaging data analysis.
* An essential reference and companion for users of the SPM software
* Provides a complete description of the concepts and procedures entailed by the analysis of brain images
* Offers full didactic treatment of the basic mathematics behind the analysis of brain imaging data
* Stands as a compendium of all the advances in neuroimaging data analysis over the past decade
* Adopts an easy to understand and incremental approach that takes the reader from basic statistics to state of the art approaches such as Variational Bayes
* Structured treatment of data analysis issues that links different modalities and models
* Includes a series of appendices and tutorial-style chapters that makes even the most sophisticated approaches accessible
From the Back Cover
In an age where the amount of data collected from brain imaging is increasing constantly, it is of critical importance to analyse those data within an accepted framework to ensure proper integration and comparison of the information collected. This book describes the ideas and procedures that underlie the analysis of signals produced by the brain. The aim is to understand how the brain works, in terms of its functional architecture and dynamics. This book provides the background and methodology for the analysis of all types of brain imaging data, from functional magnetic resonance imaging to magnetoencephalography. Critically, Statistical Parametric Mapping provides a widely accepted conceptual framework which allows treatment of all these different modalities. This rests on an understanding of the brain's functional anatomy and the way that measured signals are caused experimentally. The book takes the reader from the basic concepts underlying the analysis of neuroimaging data to cutting edge approaches that would be difficult to find in any other source. Critically, the material is presented in an incremental way so that the reader can understand the precedents for each new development. This book will be particularly useful to neuroscientists engaged in any form of brain mapping; who have to contend with the real-world problems of data analysis and understanding the techniques they are using. It is primarily a scientific treatment and a didactic introduction to the analysis of brain imaging data. It can be used as both a textbook for students and scientists starting to use the techniques, as well as a reference for practicing neuroscientists. The book also serves as a companion to the software packages that have been developed for brain imaging data analysis.
Key Features:
* An essential reference and companion for users of the SPM software
* Provides a complete description of the concepts and procedures entailed by the analysis of brain images
* Offers full didactic treatment of the basic mathematics behind the analysis of brain imaging data
* Stands as a compendium of all the advances in neuroimaging data analysis over the past decade
* Adopts an easy to understand and incremental approach that takes the reader from basic statistics to state of the art approaches such as Variational Bayes
* Structured treatment of data analysis issues that links different modalities and models
* Includes a series of appendices and tutorial-style chapters that makes even the most sophisticated approaches accessible

心理学已有两千多年的历史，但科学的心理学只是到19世纪后期才开始的，冯特是它的创始人。在，人类与动物心理学讲义》这部著作中，冯特集生理物理学大成，在生物进论的影响下，创造性地、系统地提出了关于科学心理学的对象、方法、内容与体系等问题，认为：
第一，科学心理学研究的对象是意识，它是一种过程，可以区分为观念、感情和意志，现代心理学称之为知、情、意。
第二，科学心理研究的方法是自然科学的实验方法，它把传统的内省法变成实验内省法，然后在心理物理学的基础上，应用心理物理法对感觉进行测量，因为感觉是一切物理现象的基础。
第三，科学心理学研究的内容主要是关于意识的概念、感觉心理物理理论、视知觉理论、感情和意志及其与观念的关系、比较心理学等问题。
第四，科学心理学研究的体系包括实验心理学和民族心理学两大组成部分：前者研究个体的感知觉和记忆等简单的心理过程；后者研究群体的思维、想像等复杂的心理过程，它同人类文化有紧密联系，因而有着不同的发展阶段。

张林所著的《态度与行为--社会不赞许行为的心理机制》以往社会认知与态度研究的理论回顾、社会不赞许行为的实验研究和社会不赞许行为的心理机制与干预对策，共涉及八个具体的实验研究。作者以社会不赞许行为为切入点，通过一系列针对社会不赞许行为态度的社会认知实验，就內隐、外显态度的结构问题、双重态度与社会不赞许行为的关系，以及矛盾态度的不同成分与特性对社会信息加工过程的影响等进行了深入探讨，旨在揭示社会不赞许行为的发生机制，为有效减少和干预这些社会不良行为提供理论借鉴与科学依据。

奥尔夫音乐教育体系作为20世纪流传甚广，对世界音乐教育产生重大影响的音乐教育体系，在其创立之初，就有远见地选择了“原本性音乐”作为自己教育体系的标识，同时以一种开放性的姿态，随世界音乐教育事业的发展而发展，随时代的变化而变化。因此，本书的介绍不仅符合奥尔夫音乐教育的“原理”，并且同时构成了本书不同于其他图书只介绍外国音乐教育体系和方法的特点。


本书为“学校艺术教育研究丛书”之一。这套丛书是国家教育科学“八五”规划重点项目——“学校美育理论与实践研究”成果，填补了我国学校艺术教育领域理论研究的空白。本书运用了60多个中外课例，形象、生动地介绍了奥尔夫音乐教育思想和教学方法的特点，有理论，有实践，尤其是介绍了奥尔夫音乐教育“中国化”的实践成果，非常适用于我国广大地区的中、小、幼的音乐教育。因此本书有很高的实用价值。本书也可作为高中等师范院校的辅助教科书。

Pain is one of medicine's greatest mysteries. When farmer John Mitson caught his hand in a baler, he cut off his trapped hand and carried it to a neighbor. "Sheer survival and logic" was how he described it. "And strangely, I didn't feel any pain." How can this be? We're taught that pain is a warning message to be heeded at all costs, yet it can switch off in the most agonizing circumstances or switch on for no apparent reason. Many scientists, philosophers, and laypeople imagine pain to operate like a rigid, simple signaling system, as if a particular injury generates a fixed amount of pain that simply gets transmitted to the brain; yet this mechanistic model is woefully lacking in the face of the surprising facts about what people and animals do and experience when their bodies are damaged. Patrick Wall looks at these questions and sets his scientific account in a broad context, interweaving it with a wealth of fascinating and sometimes disturbing historical detail, such as famous characters who derived pleasure from pain, the unexpected reactions of injured people, the role of endorphins, and the power of placebo. He covers cures of pain, ranging from drugs and surgery, through relaxation techniques and exercise, to acupuncture, electrical nerve stimulation, and herbalism. Pain involves our state of mind, our social mores and beliefs, and our personal experiences and expectations. Stepping beyond the famous neurologic gate-control theory for which he is known, Wall shows that pain is a matter of behavior and its manifestation differs among individuals, situations, and cultures. "The way we deal with pain is an expression of individuality."

After four decades of eradicating gender barriers at work and in public life, why do men still dominate business, politics and the most highly paid jobs? Why do high-achieving women opt out of successful careers? Psychologist Susan Pinker explores the illuminating answers to these questions in her groundbreaking first book.
In The Sexual Paradox, Susan Pinker takes a hard look at how fundamental sex differences continue to play out in the workplace. By comparing the lives of fragile boys and promising girls, Pinker turns several assumptions upside down: that the sexes are biologically equivalent; that smarts are all it takes to succeed; that men and women have identical goals.
If most children with problems are boys, then why do many of them as adults overcome early obstacles while rafts of competent, even gifted women choose jobs that pay less or decide to opt out at pivotal moments in their careers? Weaving interviews with men and women into the most recent discoveries in psychology, neuroscience and economics, Pinker walks the reader through these minefields: Are men the more fragile sex? Which sex is the happiest at work? What does neuroscience tell us about ambition? Why do some male school drop-outs earn more than the bright, motivated girls who sat beside them in third grade?
Pinker argues that men and women are not clones, and that gender discrimination is just one part of the persistent gender gap. A work world that is satisfying to us all will recognize sex differences, not ignore them or insist that we all be the same.

对统计学的学习来说，最主要的是掌握统计思想，理解相关的统计原理，能够根据实际情境提出解决问题的一个或几个合适方案，并懂得选择其中的最优。因此适合非统计专业学生的统计学理想教材，应该是能兼顾专业特点、深入浅出阐述统计学基本原理和方法，同时在轻快风趣的讲述中激发读者的学习兴趣，培养统计思维，并辅之例题分析，对使用中容易发生的错误加以提醒，切实提高学生应用统计方法分析解决实际问题的能力。《行为统计学基础》（第9版）正是这样一本非常出色的教材。本书写作风格轻松活泼，语言流畅易懂，数学深入浅出，读者在学习和阅读时不会感到枯燥乏味。
本书是心理和教育统计学方面的一本优秀的基础教材，对于在社会科学领域中的广大研究人员来说，也是一本不可多得的重要参考书

Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. With a new foreword by his daughter Mary Katherine Bateson, this classic anthology of his major work will continue to delight and inform generations of readers.

"This collection amounts to a retrospective exhibition of a working life. . . . Bateson has come to this position during a career that carried him not only into anthropology, for which he was first trained, but into psychiatry, genetics, and communication theory. . . . He . . . examines the nature of the mind, seeing it not as a nebulous something, somehow lodged somewhere in the body of each man, but as a network of interactions relating the individual with his society and his species and with the universe at large."—D. W. Harding, New York Review of Books

"[Bateson's] view of the world, of science, of culture, and of man is vast and challenging. His efforts at synthesis are tantalizingly and cryptically suggestive. . . .This is a book we should all read and ponder."—Roger Keesing, American Anthropologist

认知神经科学中的事件相关电位(ERP)技术使得科学家们能够观察到反映各种认知过程的人类脑活动。在《事件相关电位基础》一书中，Steven LuckX寸认知神经科学领域以及相关领域，包捂晴绪神经科学领域和实验精神病理学领域中的实用ERP实验问题，提供了最可充分理解的指导。本书可用作教学与实验的指南。对于那些虽然自己不进行ERP研究，但却需要理解和评价文献中ERP成分的研究者，本书也可用作参考。这本书总结了ERP理论与实践的积累，由此提供了怎样设计、进行，乃至解释ERP实验的详尽指导。这本书还介绍了所需要的理论背景，用以理解一个实验为什么会以某种方式完成。Luck集中地讨论了全世界很多先进ERP实验室所用的那些最基本的技术，这些技术反映了电生理记录的长期发展历史，并为更先进的方法提供了良好的基础。

一股新的研究浪潮正改变着我们对人类思维和大脑的认识。许多基础教育领域已要求学生对认知神经科学具备基本的理解。不过，目前多数教科书都是为生物学专业的学生准备的，很少考虑心理学和其他相关专业的读者。本书意在填补这一空缺。
专为心理学、医学预科、教育不及神经科学本科生和研究生而写；采用易于理解的主题式写作方式，无需神经科学或生物学背景；章节设置循序渐进，可读性强，以简单漂亮的绘图作品构建大脑，令人印象深刻；每章结尾处附有思考题和绘图练习，帮助加深理解。