HOW INTELLIGENCE WORKS (HOW INTELLIGENCE HAPPENS)

Book ID/图书代码： 13000510B35285

English Summary/英文概要： Human intelligence is among the most powerful forces on Earth. It builds spreading cities, enormous cornfields and coffee plantations, microchips; it takes us from the atom to the limits of the Universe. Understanding how brains build intelligence is among the most fascinating challenges of modern science. How does the biological brain, a collection of billions of cells, enable us to do things no other species can do? In this book John Duncan, a scientist who has spent 30 years studying the human brain, offers an adventure story – the story of the hunt for basic principles of human intelligence, behaviour and thought.
Using results drawn from classical studies of intelligence testing, from attempts to build computers that think, from studies of how minds change after brain damage, from modern discoveries of brain imaging and from groundbreaking recent research, Duncan synthesizes often difficult-to-understand information into a book that will appeal to scientific and popular readers alike. He explains how brains break down problems into useful, solvable parts, then assemble these parts into the complex mental programmes of human though and action.
www.howintelligencehappens.com/

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 解析人類智慧，探索充滿無限潛能的大腦

人類智慧可謂是地球上最無可匹敵的力量。它能夠創建遍佈世界各個角落的城市，一望無際的玉米田和咖啡種植園，還能製造出蘊含著無限科技力量的微型積體電路片；它能帶領我們領略原子的奧秘，又可以帶我們探索宇宙的極限。解析人類智慧的成因是現代科學的一大重要挑戰。人體的大腦，一個擁有十億細胞的集合體，是如何攀登到任何其他物種都無法企及的高度？本書中，研究人體大腦30餘年的科學家約翰‧鄧肯，將會呈現一個關於人類智慧、行為、思想基礎原理的獵尋。
人類智慧測試的經典研究案例、人腦電腦製造的嘗試、大腦受傷後思維能力變化的研究、大腦想像力的當代重要發現以及具有開創性的最新研究…鄧肯把這些艱澀難懂的資訊集結成篇。他解釋了大腦如何將棘手的問題分解成便於處理的部分，然後將這些部分整理組合，最終形成了人們的思維和行動。(Claire & Vincent)

Awards/获奖情况：Rights sold:
Japan (Hayakawa)
Russia (Hippo)

Reviews:
Like getting into a gripping novel…The book is an invigorating read.---D. Wayne Dworsky, Sacramento Book Review

A highly personal and fascinating account of how the brain supports thought processes.---Michael I. Posner, University of Oregon

An elegant book… Graceful without being flowery, engaging, and easily comprehensible without being simplistic.---Wendy Johnson, Times Higher Education

A timely, original and highly readable contribution to our understanding of human intelligence and its implementation in the brain, by a leading figure in cognitive neuroscience.---Nancy Kanwisher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

John Duncan, one of the world”s leading cognitive neuroscientists… makes a convincing case that [the brain’’s frontal and parietal lobes] constitute a special circuit that is crucial for both [British psychologist Charles] Spearman”s ”g” and for intelligent behavior more generally.---Christopher F. Chabris, The Wall Street Journal

A comprehensive account of the brain mechanisms of cognition, not only historical but also quite readable and offering a unique perspective and hypotheses. Duncan offers a more fluid dynamic view of frontal cortex function that stands in contrast to the traditional model of cortical function.---Earl K. Miller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

About the Author/作者介绍： JOHN DUNCAN is assistant director of the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge, honorary professor of cognitive neuroscience at the universities of Cambridge and Bangor, visiting professor at the University of Oxford, and fellow of the Royal Society and the British Academy. He is known for his frontal-lobe theory of human intelligence, which has been covered in the media worldwide – including the BBC, ABC News, The New York Times, Washington Post, Science and New Scientist. HOW INTELLIGENCE HAPPENS, his first book for a popular audience, is based on his 30-year research programme linking human mind to brain. He lives in a small village close to Cambridge.
約翰‧鄧肯系英國劍橋大學MRC認知系統和腦科學組助理署長，另外還擔任劍橋大學和班戈大學認知神經系統科學名譽教授，牛津大學客座教授，英國皇家學會會員。約翰因其人類智慧的額葉腦學說（frontal-lobe theory）而享譽科學界，他的這一學說已經被所有的主流媒體包括BBC、ABC新聞、紐約時報、華盛頓郵報、科學及新興科學家等爭相報導。《解析人類智慧》（HOW INTELLIGENCE HAPPENS）是他基於30餘年研究成果、第一本面向普羅大眾的通俗讀物。約翰現居住在靠近劍橋的一個小村莊。

Format:电子手稿

Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Translation ex. Japan and Korea on behalf of The Science Factory Publisher: UK/US (Yale University Press), Japanese (Hayakawa), Russian (Kariera Press)

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