《可见的学习与学习科学》融合“可见的学习”的基本理念和学习科学的前沿研究，阐述了学习的主要原则和策略，它解释了学习为什么有时候很难，有时候又很容易。
对于任何想了解关于人类学习过程的研究，关心如何科学引导学校里的教学和学习的研究者、教师、家长和学生来说，这本令人惊叹的书再合适不过了。本书广泛地考察了社会心理学和认知心理学的前沿研究，并以简约和实用的方式呈现出来，适合于从学前教育到高等教育机构的所有层次的研究者、教师和学生。
本书分为三部分：“课堂内的学习”；“学习基础”，阐释了知识习得的认知建构模块；“认识你自己”，探讨自信和自我认识。另外，这本书含有大量的互动资源，其中包括以导学问题来鼓励批判性思考，以带注释的书目来推荐延伸阅读，以及相关网站和视频链接。纵观全书，作者引用最新的国际研究来解释学习过程是如何运行的，如何对学生产生最大的影响，其中包括以下主题：
教师的个性
专业能力和师生关系
知识是如何存储的以及认知负荷的影响
快思考和慢思考
自控的心理学
对话在学校和家庭中的作用
看不见的大猩猩和宜家效应
数字原住民理论
关于人们如何学习的迷思和谬论

意识问题被认为是“科学的最后一个伟大秘密”，一度被极端的怀疑主义者和主流科学家拒绝研究。现在，它是一个重要的研究领域——“意识的生物学基础是什么？”在《科学》(Science)公布的125个最具挑战性的科学问题中高居第二位。尽管它仍然是一个充满争议的领域，但对于心理学、哲学和神经科学的学生来说，也是一个在快速扩大的研究领域。
本书探讨了从神经科学和心理学到哲学和量子理论的意识研究的关键理论及证据。它探究了为什么“意识”一词没有一致的定义，也让读者有机会去探究关于自我、心智和意识的个人直觉。
本书涵盖了该领域所有核心主题，包括：
·为什么研究意识问题如此困难？
·神经科学和意识的神经关联。
·为什么我们会误解自己的思想？
·意识和无意识之间的明显区别。
·关于注意、自由意志和自我及其他的理论。
·动物和机器中意识的进化。
·从冥想、用药到做梦的意识改变状态。
本书还提供了关键概念专栏、知名思想家的小传，以及适合于独立研究和进行小组讨论的练习与活动专栏，为意识这个迷人的领域提供了完整而全面的介绍。

The study of concepts has advanced dramatically in recent years, with exciting new findings and theoretical developments. Core concepts have been investigated in greater depth and new lines of inquiry have blossomed, with researchers from an ever broader range of disciplines making important contributions. In this volume, leading philosophers and cognitive scientists offer original essays that present the state-of-the-art in the study of concepts. These essays, all commissioned for this book, do not merely present the usual surveys and overviews; rather, they offer the latest work on concepts by a diverse group of theorists as well as discussions of the ideas that should guide research over the next decade. The book is an essential companion volume to the earlier Concepts: Core Readings, the definitive source for classic texts on the nature of concepts.
The essays cover concepts as they relate to animal cognition, the brain, evolution, perception, and language, concepts across cultures, concept acquisition and conceptual change, concepts and normativity, concepts in context, and conceptual individuation. The contributors include such prominent scholars as Susan Carey, Nicola Clayton, Jerry Fodor, Douglas Medin, Joshua Tenenbaum, and Anna Wierzbicka.

How do infants learn a language? Why and how do languages evolve? How do we understand a sentence? This book explores these questions using recent computational models that shed new light on issues related to language and cognition. The chapters in this collection propose original analyses of specific problems and develop computational models that have been tested and evaluated on real data. Featuring contributions from a diverse group of experts, this interdisciplinary book bridges the gap between natural language processing and cognitive sciences. It is divided into three sections, focusing respectively on models of neural and cognitive processing, data driven methods, and social issues in language evolution. This book will be useful to any researcher and advanced student interested in the analysis of the links between the brain and the language faculty.

Renowned linguist George Lakoff pairs with psychologist Rafael Nuñez in the first book to provide a serious study of the cognitive science of mathematical ideas. This book is about mathematical ideas, about what mathematics means-and why. Abstract ideas, for the most part, arise via conceptual metaphor-metaphorical ideas projecting from the way we function in the everyday physical world. Where Mathematics Comes From argues that conceptual metaphor plays a central role in mathematical ideas within the cognitive unconscious-from arithmetic and algebra to sets and logic to infinity in all of its forms.

Despite their apparently divergent accounts of higher cognition, cognitive theories based on neural computation and those employing symbolic computation can in fact strengthen one another. To substantiate this controversial claim, this landmark work develops in depth a cognitive architecture based in neural computation but supporting formally explicit higher-level symbolic descriptions, including new grammar formalisms. Detailed studies in both phonology and syntax provide arguments that these grammatical theories and their neural network realizations enable deeper explanations of early acquisition, processing difficulty, cross-linguistic typology, and the possibility of genomically encoding universal principles of grammar. Foundational questions concerning the explanatory status of symbols for central problems such as the unbounded productivity of higher cognition are also given proper treatment. The work is made accessible to scholars in different fields of cognitive science through tutorial chapters and numerous expository boxes providing background material from several disciplines. Examples common to different chapters facilitate the transition from more basic to more sophisticated treatments. Details of method, formalism, and foundation are presented in later chapters, offering a wealth of new results to specialists in psycholinguistics, language acquisition, theoretical linguistics, computational linguistics, computational neuroscience, connectionist modeling, and philosophy of mind.

In Memory in the Cerebral Cortex, Joaquin M. Fuster presents the insights of more than three decades of empirical research on the neural processes by which memory is formed, stored, and retrieved. Spanning the field from neuroanatomy to modeling, this book brings together all that we presently know about the role of the cerebral cortex of the primate in memory.

Our thoughts are meaningful. We think about things in the outside world; how can that be so? This is one of the deepest questions in contemporary philosophy. Ever since the 'cognitive revolution', states with meaning-mental representations-have been the key explanatory construct of the cognitive sciences. But there is still no widely accepted theory of how mental representations get their meaning. Powerful new methods in cognitive neuroscience can now reveal information processing in the brain in unprecedented detail. They show how the brain performs complex calculations on neural representations.

It contains everything the student needs to know about the psychology of language: how we understand, produce, and store language. This new edition contains new chapters on how children learn to read, and how language is used in everyday settings. It also describes recent research on the impact of new techniques of brain imaging.
The text is comprehensive and written in a lively and accessible style. It covers all the main topics in this complex field, focusing on the processes involved in understanding and producing language, including reading, writing, speaking, and listening. The text covers recent connectionist models of language, describing complex ideas in a clear and approachable manner. Following a strong developmental theme, the text describes how children acquire language (sometimes more than one), and also how they learn to read. The Psychology of Language demonstrates how language is related to the brain and to other aspects of cognition.

本书阐释了神经科学中的主要概念，着重体现了这些概念蕴含的主要内容以及它们是如何被揭示的。全书共13章，内容包括神经元内的信号通路，神经突触的信号传递，视觉，视觉系统神经回路的连接，嗅觉、味觉、听觉及体感，神经系统的连接，运动和调控系统，性行为，记忆、学习与突触可塑性，脑疾病，神经系统的演化，神经科学研究方法等。书中通过一系列关键实验展示了神经科学的发展历程，每一专题均将分子、细胞、神经回路、系统及行为途径等多元内容进行整合，有助于学生追踪相关文献和数据，并将专业知识融会贯通。
全书内容丰富，为读者提供了经典实验描述、原始论文的数据图表、参考文献等丰富的学习资源。各章首带领读者概览每章学习要点及基本框架，各章知识框详细阐述相关机理和技术进展。章末小结帮助读者及时复习并评价其学习效果。
本书原版由美国科学院院士和美国艺术与科学学院院士骆利群教授编著，其写作风格引人入胜，叙述清晰，所涉及的现代神经生物学重要课题拥有足够的深度，展现出研究前沿，紧密关联的章节让学生能更好地理解各知识点的内容。
本书可作为神经生物学及其相关专业高年级本科生和研究生的教材，也是大学教师和相关领域研究人员不可多得的参考书。

Surveys show that our growing concern over protecting the environment is accompanied by a diminishing sense of human contact with nature. Many people have little commonsense knowledge about nature—are unable, for example, to identify local plants and trees or describe how these plants and animals interact. Researchers report dwindling knowledge of nature even in smaller, nonindustrialized societies. In The Native Mind and the Cultural Construction of Nature, Scott Atran and Douglas Medin trace the cognitive consequences of this loss of knowledge. Drawing on nearly two decades of cross-cultural and developmental research, they examine the relationship between how people think about the natural world and how they act on it and how these two phenomena are affected by cultural differences.
These studies, which involve a series of targeted comparisons among cultural groups living in the same environment and engaged in the same activities, reveal critical universal aspects of mind as well as equally critical cultural differences. Atran and Medin find that, despite a base of universal processes, the cultural differences in understandings of nature are associated with significant differences in environmental decision making as well as intergroup conflict and stereotyping stemming from these differences. The book includes two intensive case studies, one focusing on agro-forestry among Maya Indians and Spanish speakers in Mexico and Guatemala and the other on resource conflict between Native-American and European-American fishermen in Wisconsin. The Native Mind and the Cultural Construction of Nature offers new perspectives on general theories of human categorization, reasoning, decision making, and cognitive development.

Only human beings have a rich conceptual repertoire with concepts like tort, entropy, Abelian group, mannerism, icon and deconstruction. How have humans constructed these concepts? And once they have been constructed by adults, how do children acquire them? While primarily focusing on the second question, in The Origin of Concepts, Susan Carey shows that the answers to both overlap substantially.
Carey begins by characterizing the innate starting point for conceptual development, namely systems of core cognition. Representations of core cognition are the output of dedicated input analyzers, as with perceptual representations, but these core representations differ from perceptual representations in having more abstract contents and richer functional roles. Carey argues that the key to understanding cognitive development lies in recognizing conceptual discontinuities in which new representational systems emerge that have more expressive power than core cognition and are also incommensurate with core cognition and other earlier representational systems. Finally, Carey fleshes out Quinian bootstrapping, a learning mechanism that has been repeatedly sketched in the literature on the history and philosophy of science. She demonstrates that Quinian bootstrapping is a major mechanism in the construction of new representational resources over the course of childrens cognitive development.
Carey shows how developmental cognitive science resolves aspects of long-standing philosophical debates about the existence, nature, content, and format of innate knowledge. She also shows that understanding the processes of conceptual development in children illuminates the historical process by which concepts are constructed, and transforms the way we think about philosophical problems about the nature of concepts and the relations between language and thought.

Recent years have seen a revolution in our knowledge of how children learn to think and speak. In this volume, leading scholars from these rapidly evolving fields of research examine the relationship between child language acquisition and cognitive development. At first sight, advances in the two areas seem to have moved in opposing directions: the study of language acquisition has been especially concerned with diversity, explaining how children learn languages of widely different types, while the study of cognitive development has focused on uniformity, clarifying how children build on fundamental, presumably universal concepts. This book brings these two vital strands of investigation into close dialogue, suggesting a synthesis in which the process of language acquisition may interact with early cognitive development. It provides empirical contributions based on a variety of languages, populations and ages, and theoretical discussions that cut across the disciplines of psychology, linguistics and anthropology.

According to Bickerton, the behavioral sciences have failed to give an adequate account of human nature at least partly because of the conjunction and mutual reinforcement of two widespread beliefs: that language is simply a means of communication and that human intelligence is the result of the rapid growth and unusual size of human brains. Bickerton argues that each of the properties distinguishing human intelligence and consciousness from that of other animals can be shown to derive straightforwardly from properties of language. In essence, language arose as a representational system, not a means of communication or a skill, and not a product of culture but an evolutionary adaptation. The author stresses the necessity of viewing intelligence in evolutionary terms, seeing it not as problem solving but as a way of maintaining homeostasis - the preservation of those conditions most favorable to an organism, the optimal achievable conditions for survival and well-being. The term protolanguage is used to describe the stringing together of symbols that prehuman hominids employed. "It did not allow them to turn today's imagination into tomorrow's fact. But it is just this power to transform imagination into fact that distinguishes human behavior from that of our ancestral species, and indeed from that of all other species. It is exactly what enables us to change our behavior, or invent vast ranges of new behavior, practically overnight, with no concomitant genetic changes." Language and Human Behavior should be of interest to anyone in the behavioral and evolutionary sciences and to all those concerned with the role of language in human behavior.

《创造性:人类创新的科学》对心理学及相关科学领域的一系列广泛研究进行了总结与整合，浅显易懂地介绍了最新的关于创造性的科学研究。近40年来，心理学家、人类学家和社会学家对创造性越来越关注；现在，我们对创造性的了解胜于历史上的任何时期。《创造性：人类创新的科学》不仅关注诸如绘画和写作等艺术领域，也关注科学、舞台表演、商业创新和日常生活中的创造性。
Sawyer的取向是跨学科的。除了考察有关创造性的心理学研究，他还吸收了人类学家对非西方文化中的创造性所开展的研究，社会学家对创造性活动的情景、环境和网络所开展的研究，以及认知神经科学家对脑的研究。他超越了个体研究，关注创造性的社会文化背景，包括协作在创造过程中的作用。

" The Way We Think is a dazzling tour of the complexities of human imagination."--George Lakoff, co-author of Philosophy in the Flesh and Where Mathematics Comes From . In its first two decades, much of cognitive science focused on such mental functions as memory, learning, symbolic thought, and language acquisition--the functions in which the human mind most closely resembles a computer. But humans are more than computers, and the cutting-edge research in cognitive science is increasingly focused on the more mysterious, creative aspects of the mind. The Way We Think is a landmark synthesis that exemplifies this new direction. The theory of conceptual blending is already widely known in laboratories throughout the world; this book is its definitive statement. Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner argue that all learning and all thinking consist of blends of metaphors based on simple bodily experiences. These blends are then themselves blended together into an increasingly rich structure that makes up our mental functioning in modern society. A child's entire development consists of learning and navigating these blends. The Way We Think shows how this blending operates; how it is affected by (and gives rise to) language, identity, and concept of category; and the rules by which we use blends to understand ideas that are new to us. The result is a bold, exciting, and accessible new view of how the mind works.