图书标签: 神经科学 思维 心理学 脑科学 科普 psychology 认知科学 English
发表于2025-01-22
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The brain, that "cobbled-together mess," is the subject of this lively mix of solid science and fascinating case histories. Linden, a neuroscientist from Johns Hopkins University, offers "the Reader's Digest version" of how the brain functions, followed quickly by the "real biology," before tackling the big questions: Why are people religious? How do we form memories? What makes sleep so vital to mental health? Which is more important, nature or nurture? Linden tackles these problems head on, debunking myths (people do, in fact, use more than 10 percent of their brains) and offering interesting trivia (Einstein's brain was a bit on the small side) along the way. Anti-evolutionary arguments are answered in a chapter titled "The Unintelligent Design of the Brain," in which Linden proposes that it's the brain's "weird agglomeration of ad hoc solutions" that makes humans unique. The book's greatest strength is Linden's knack for demystifying biology and neuroscience with vivid similes (he calls the brain, weighing two percent of total body weight and using 20 percent of its energy, the "Hummer H2 of the body"). Though packed with textbook-ready data, the book grips readers like a masterful teacher; those with little science experience may be surprised to find themselves interested in-and even chuckling over-the migration of neurons along radial glia, and anxious to find out what happens next.
戴维·J·林登(David J.Linden)是美国约翰·霍普金斯大学医学院教授、神经科学家,对小脑突触可塑性有专门的研究。
好像是一本非常被推崇的关于brain的科普而又严谨的书。个人感觉,比我以前看的那两本要赞很多。书中对,感官的错觉(大部分时候),记忆的形成(微观基础和宏观行为),性与自我性别的认知,梦和宗教错觉(或者说是超自然的感觉)的脑构造基础,和最impressive的brain这个design的优劣讨论和进化论以及一次性设计的讨论,都非常的吸引人。非常易懂,好像这本书还拿了一个科普读物中的很大的奖, 很推荐。
评分图书馆期限内只看了一半。。。还是挺幽默的,文字很口语化,读的时候可以想象出作者在眼前侃大山(不)的感觉。
评分一本非常有趣的神经生物学的书,有观点,有论据,有推理,有呼应。大三的时候要看这本书,兴许我现在在搞脑科学研究也说不准。
评分The brain is like an ice cream cone with new scoops piled on at each stage of our linage. It is a kludge from accidental design. The prefrontal cortex which is hub of cognitive thinking is of very limited functions, our memory is usually misattributed, biased and often twisted by emotions...所以不能完全相信自己的大脑,因为它经常”自欺欺人”
评分一本非常有趣的神经生物学的书,有观点,有论据,有推理,有呼应。大三的时候要看这本书,兴许我现在在搞脑科学研究也说不准。
1 早期脑发育中,丘脑视觉轴突部分突入听觉皮层,后期消失。但在失聪人群中反而继续生长。 2 出生后第一年后急速产生的1000E个神经元相继死去,有刺激的留下,没有则死去。 3 5岁以前双语教学,小孩能完美发音。12岁之后,第一语言窗户关闭。 4 视觉观察是和电视一样靠扫描产生...
评分这本科学普及读物如此通俗易懂,却又发人审醒。 我们对于大脑的认识,甚至一些坚信不宜的知识,很多都是错误的。逐渐地,大脑被我们神话了,像一个拥有未知力量的宝藏。 如今,是时候揭开这层面纱,透过乱生的头发和粘粘的脑组织,睹一睹庐山的真面目了。
评分这是个大科学家写的面向公众的科普书,可谓深入浅出,知识系统丰富,翻译准确生动,还阐明了很多公众对大脑的误解。除了一些离子通道,谷氨酸受体,REM睡眠之类的东西,大部分内容是有趣并且易懂的。 从书名就可以看出,作者是要反驳神创论和智能设计论的。证据绝对充分...
评分好多地方的翻译难以看懂,甚至有些地方说反了: “相反地,一些行为特征并不怎么受到环境的影响:饮食习惯非常依赖于早期早期经验(包括啮齿类和人类)……”,原文是“In contrast, other behavioral traits do not appear to be strongly influenced by genes:”,原文是gene...
评分这本科学普及读物如此通俗易懂,却又发人审醒。 我们对于大脑的认识,甚至一些坚信不宜的知识,很多都是错误的。逐渐地,大脑被我们神话了,像一个拥有未知力量的宝藏。 如今,是时候揭开这层面纱,透过乱生的头发和粘粘的脑组织,睹一睹庐山的真面目了。
The Accidental Mind pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025