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)

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)

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)

Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people--at work, at school, at home. It's wrong. As Daniel H. Pink explains in his new and paradigm- shattering book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us , the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today's world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, ...(展开全部)

艾莉森•高普尼克（Alison Gopnik） ●国际公认的儿童学习与发展研究泰斗级专家，首位从儿童意识角度深刻剖析哲学问题的心理学家。对于孩子的心智、大脑和学习方式，没人比她更了解。 ●牛津大学心理学博士，加州大学伯克利分校心理学系教授及哲学系客座教授，推翻了经典的“白板说”，还是心理理论创始人之一。 ●TED演讲点击量过300万次，写有大量科学文章和评论，见于《纽约时报》《卫报》《科学人》等各大媒体。

Caring deeply about our children is part of what makes us human. Yet the thing we call “parenting” is a surprisingly new invention. In the past thirty years, the concept of parenting and the multibillion-dollar industry surrounding it have transformed child care into obsessive, controlling, and goal-oriented labor intended to create a particular kind of child and therefore a pa...(展开全部)

大卫·刘易斯-威廉斯 （David Lewis-Williams） 约翰内斯堡威特沃特斯兰德大学岩石艺术研究所名誉教授和高级导师。 因其毕生在远古岩画艺术方面的研究而闻名于世，2015年，南非总统向其颁发金质猴面包树勋章（Order of the Baobab in Gold），以表彰其对考古学的杰出贡献。他的作品包括《破译古代思想：圣布须曼岩画之谜》（Deciphering Ancient Minds: The Mystery of San Bushmen Rock Art）、《想象上帝：宗教的认知起源和演变》（Conceiving God: The Cognitive Origin and Evolution of Religion）、《走进新石器时代的心灵：意识、宇宙和神的领域》（Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consc...(展开全部)