Nobelist Eric Kandel's account of how his personal quest to understand memory intersected with the emergence of a new science. In Search of Memory relates the astonishing story of how four different and distinct disciplines—behaviorist psychology, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and molecular biology—converged into a powerful new science of mind. Through its prof...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly When, as a medical student in the 1950s, Kandel said he wanted to locate the ego and id in the brain, his mentor told him he was overreaching, that the brain had to be studied "cell by cell." After his initial dismay, Kandel took on the challenge and in 2000 was awarded a Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking research showing how memory is encoded in the bra...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly When, as a medical student in the 1950s, Kandel said he wanted to locate the ego and id in the brain, his mentor told him he was overreaching, that the brain had to be studied "cell by cell." After his initial dismay, Kandel took on the challenge and in 2000 was awarded a Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking research showing how memory is encoded in the bra...(展开全部)

Nobelist Eric Kandel's account of how his personal quest to understand memory intersected with the emergence of a new science. In Search of Memory relates the astonishing story of how four different and distinct disciplines—behaviorist psychology, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and molecular biology—converged into a powerful new science of mind. Through its prof...(展开全部)

查尔斯·费尼霍（Charles Fernyhough） 英国心理学家，作家。 费尼霍为《时代·观点》（TIME Ideas）、《自然》（Nature）、《新科学家》（New Scientist）、《卫报》（Guardian）、《观察家》（Observer）、《金融时报》（Financial Times）等多家著名媒体撰稿，在《今日心理学》（Psychology Today）上拥有博客，他经常出现在广播节目上。他曾进入2015年传播思想交流奖的候选名单。他在英国杜伦大学拥有兼职心理学工作，领导一个关于视听幻觉现象的跨学科研究项目。 费尼霍著作颇丰：观察自己女儿3岁前心理发展的科学著作《镜中的婴儿》（The Baby in the Mirror）被翻译为8种语言；关于自传体记忆的著作《记忆碎片：我们如何构建自己的过去》（Pieces of Light）被...(展开全部)

A New York Times bestseller when it appeared in 1989, Roger Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind was universally hailed as a marvelous survey of modern physics as well as a brilliant reflection on the human mind, offering a new perspective on the scientific landscape and a visionary glimpse of the possible future of science. Now, in Shadows of the Mind, Penrose offers another exhil...(展开全部)

A New York Times bestseller when it appeared in 1989, Roger Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind was universally hailed as a marvelous survey of modern physics as well as a brilliant reflection on the human mind, offering a new perspective on the scientific landscape and a visionary glimpse of the possible future of science. Now, in Shadows of the Mind, Penrose offers another exhil...(展开全部)

What is consciousness? How do physical processes in the brain give rise to the self-aware mind and to feelings as profoundly varied as love or hate, aesthetic pleasure or spiritual yearning? These questions today are among the most hotly debated issues among scientists and philosophers, and we have seen in recent years superb volumes by such eminent figures as Francis Crick, Da...(展开全部)

What is consciousness? How do physical processes in the brain give rise to the self-aware mind and to feelings as profoundly varied as love or hate, aesthetic pleasure or spiritual yearning? David J. Chalmers unveils a major new theory of consciousness, one that rejects the prevailing reductionist trend of science, while offering provocative insights into the relationship betwe...(展开全部)