Neuroscientists once believed your brain was essentially "locked down" by adulthood. No new cells. No major changes. If you grew up depressed, angry, sad, aggressive, or nasty, you'd be that way for life. And, as you grew older, there'd be nowhere to go but down, as disease, age, or injury wiped out precious, irreplaceable brain cells. But over the past five, ten, twenty years,...(展开全部)

What is morality? Where does it come from? And why do most of us heed its call most of the time? In "Braintrust", neurophilosophy pioneer Patricia Churchland argues that morality originates in the biology of the brain. She describes the 'neurobiological platform of bonding' that, modified by evolutionary pressures and cultural values, has led to human styles of moral behavior. ...(展开全部)

帕特里夏·S.丘奇兰德，加利福尼亚大学圣地亚哥分校荣休哲学教授，以及索尔克研究所(Salk Institute)的兼职教授，其在神经哲学与心智哲学方面贡献卓著。她的书包括《脑智》(Brain-Wise)、《神经哲学》(Neurophilosophy)等。1991年，她荣获麦克·阿瑟奖。

What is morality? Where does it come from? And why do most of us heed its call most of the time? In Braintrust, neurophilosophy pioneer Patricia Churchland argues that morality originates in the biology of the brain. She describes the "neurobiological platform of bonding" that, modified by evolutionary pressures and cultural values, has led to human styles of moral behavior. Th...(展开全部)

This exciting book by three pioneers in the new field of cognitive science discusses important discoveries about how much babies and young children know and learn, and how much parents naturally teach them.It argues that evolution designed us both to teach and learn, and that the drive to learn is our most important instinct. It also reveals as fascinating insights about our a...(展开全部)

Insightful, surprising and with ground-breaking revelations about our society, Everybody Lies exposes the secrets embedded in our internet searches, with a foreword by bestselling author Steven Pinker Everybody lies, to friends, lovers, doctors, pollsters – and to themselves. In Internet searches, however, people confess their secrets – about sexless marriages, mental health pr...(展开全部)

A pioneering exploration of olfaction that upsets settled notions of how the brain translates sensory information. Decades of cognition research have shown that external stimuli “spark” neural patterns in particular regions of the brain. This has fostered a view of the brain as a space that we can map: here the brain responds to faces, there it perceives a sensation in your lef...(展开全部)

In the compelling popular science tradition of Sapiens and Guns, Germs, and Steel, a groundbreaking and eye-opening exploration that applies evolutionary science to provide a new perspective on human psychology, revealing how major challenges from our past have shaped some of the most fundamental aspects of our being. The most fundamental aspects of our lives—from leadership an...(展开全部)

《纽约时报》的-专栏作者，沃顿商学院客座讲师，前谷歌数据科学家。他在斯坦福大学获得哲学学士学位，并以美国大学优等生的身份毕业，之后获得哈佛大学经济学博士学位。他用新的大数据源揭示了不为人知的行为和态度，这一研究发现登上了《公共经济学》杂志和其他著名刊物。现居纽约市。

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is a New York Times op-ed contributor, a visiting lecturer at The Wharton School, and a former Google data scientist. He received a BA in philosophy from Stanford, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa, and a PhD in economics from Harvard. His research—which uses new, big data sources to uncover hidden behaviors and attitudes—has appeared in the Journal of ...(展开全部)