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"There are words that are so familiar they obscure rather than illuminate the thing they mean, and 'learning' is such a word. It seems so ordinary, everyone does it. Actually it's more of a black box, which Dehaene cracks open to reveal the awesome secrets within."--The New York Times Book Review An illuminating dive into the latest science on our brain's remarkable learning abilities and the potential of the machines we program to imitate them The human brain is an extraordinary learning machine. Its ability to reprogram itself is unparalleled, and it remains the best source of inspiration for recent developments in artificial intelligence. But how do we learn? What innate biological foundations underlie our ability to acquire new information, and what principles modulate their efficiency? In How We Learn, Stanislas Dehaene finds the boundary of computer science, neurobiology, and cognitive psychology to explain how learning really works and how to make the best use of the brain's learning algorithms in our schools and universities, as well as in everyday life and at any age.
Fifteen of the foremost scientists in this field presented testable theoretical models of consciousness and discussed how our understanding of the role that consciousness plays in our cognitive processes is being refined with some surprising results.
'Absorbing, mind-enlarging, studded with insights ... This could have significant real-world results' Sunday Times Humanity's greatest feat is our incredible ability to learn. Even in their first year, infants acquire language, visual and social knowledge at a rate that surpasses the best supercomputers. But how, exactly, do our brains learn? In How We Learn, leading neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene delves into the psychological, neuronal, synaptic and molecular mechanisms of learning. Drawing on case studies of children who learned despite huge difficulty and trauma, he explains why youth is such a sensitive period, during which brain plasticity is maximal, but also assures us that our abilities continue into adulthood. We can all enhance our learning and memory at any age and 'learn to learn' by taking maximal advantage of the four pillars of the brain's learning algorithm: attention, active engagement, error feedback and consolidation. The human brain is an extraordinary machine. Its ability to process information and adapt to circumstances by reprogramming itself is unparalleled, and it remains the best source of inspiration for recent developments in artificial intelligence. How We Learn finds the boundary of computer science, neurobiology, cognitive psychology and education to explain how learning really works and how to make the best use of the brain's learning algorithms - and even improve them - in our schools and universities as well as in everyday life.
"Brings together the cognitive, the cultural, and the neurological
in an elegant, compelling narrative. A revelatory work."
WINNER OF THE 2014 BRAIN PRIZE From the acclaimed author of Reading in the Brain and How We Learn, a breathtaking look at the new science that can track consciousness deep in the brain How does our brain generate a conscious thought? And why does so much of our knowledge remain unconscious? Thanks to clever psychological and brain-imaging experiments, scientists are closer to cracking this mystery than ever before. In this lively book, Stanislas Dehaene describes the pioneering work his lab and the labs of other cognitive neuroscientists worldwide have accomplished in defining, testing, and explaining the brain events behind a conscious state. We can now pin down the neurons that fire when a person reports becoming aware of a piece of information and understand the crucial role unconscious computations play in how we make decisions. The emerging theory enables a test of consciousness in animals, babies, and those with severe brain injuries. A joyous exploration of the mind and its thrilling complexities, Consciousness and the Brain will excite anyone interested in cutting-edge science and technology and the vast philosophical, personal, and ethical implications of finally quantifying consciousness.
Wir sind umgeben von Zahlen. Ob auf Kreditkarten gestanzt oder auf Munzen gepragt, ob auf Schecks gedruckt oder in den Spalten computerisierter Tabellen aufgelistet, uberall beherrschen Zahlen unser Leben. Sie sind auch der Kern unserer Technologie. Ohne Zahlen koennten wir weder Raketen starten, die das Sonnensystem erkunden, noch Brucken bauen, Guter austauschen oder Rech- nungen bezahlen. In gewissem Sinn sind Zahlen also kulturelle Erfindungen, die sich ihrer Bedeutung nach nur mit der Landwirtschaft oder mit dem Rad vergleichen lassen. Aber sie koennten sogar noch tiefere Wurzeln haben. Tausende von Jahren vor Christus benutzten babylonische Wissenschaftler Zahlzeichen, um erstaun- lich genaueastronomische Tabellen zu berechnen. Zehntausende von Jahren zuvor hatten Menschen der Steinzeit die ersten geschriebenen Zahlenreihen geschaffen, indem sie Knochen einkerbten oder Punkte auf Hoehlenwande malten. Und, wie ich spater uberzeugend darzustellen hoffe, schon vor weiteren Millionen von Jahren, lange bevor es Menschen gab, nahmen Tiere aller Arten Zahlen zur Kenntnis und stellten mit ihnen einfache Kopfrechnungen an. Sind Zahlen also fast so alt wie das Leben selbst? Sind sie in der Struktur unseres Gehirns verankert? Besitzen wir einen Zahlensinn, eine spezielle Intuition, die uns hilft, Zahlen und Mathematik mit Sinn zu erfullen? Ich wurde vor funfzehn Jahren, wahrend meiner Ausbildung zum Mathema- tiker, fasziniert von den abstrakten Objekten, mit denen ich umzugehen lernte, vor allem von den einfachsten von ihnen- den Zahlen.
Our understanding of how the human brain performs mathematical
calculations is far from complete, but in recent years there have
been many exciting breakthroughs by scientists all over the world.
Now, in The Number Sense, Stanislas Dehaene offers a fascinating
look at this recent research, in an enlightening exploration of the
mathematical mind. Dehaene begins with the eye-opening discovery
that animals--including rats, pigeons, raccoons, and
chimpanzees--can perform simple mathematical calculations, and that
human infants also have a rudimentary number sense. Dehaene
suggests that this rudimentary number sense is as basic to the way
the brain understands the world as our perception of color or of
objects in space, and, like these other abilities, our number sense
is wired into the brain. These are but a few of the wealth of
fascinating observations contained here. We also discover, for
example, that because Chinese names for numbers are so short,
Chinese people can remember up to nine or ten digits at a
time--English-speaking people can only remember seven. The book
also explores the unique abilities of idiot savants and
mathematical geniuses, and we meet people whose minute brain
lesions render their mathematical ability useless. This new and
completely updated edition includes all of the most recent
scientific data on how numbers are encoded by single neurons, and
which brain areas activate when we perform calculations. Perhaps
most important, The NumberSense reaches many provocative
conclusions that will intrigue anyone interested in learning,
mathematics, or the mind.
The study of mathematical cognition and the ways in which the
ideas of space, time and number are encoded in brain circuitry has
become a fundamental issue for neuroscience. How such encoding
differs across cultures and educational level is of further
interest in education and neuropsychology. This rapidly expanding
field of research is overdue for an interdisciplinary volume such
as this, which deals with the neurological and psychological
foundations of human numeric capacity. A uniquely integrative work,
this volume provides a much needed compilation of primary source
material to researchers from basic neuroscience, psychology,
developmental science, neuroimaging, neuropsychology and
theoretical biology.
The Number Sense is an enlightening exploration of the mathematical mind. Describing experiments that show that human infants have a rudimentary number sense, Stanislas Dehaene suggests that this sense is as basic as our perception of color, and that it is wired into the brain. Dehaene shows that it was the invention of symbolic systems of numerals that started us on the climb to higher mathematics. A fascinating look at the crossroads where numbers and neurons intersect, The Number Sense offers an intriguing tour of how the structure of the brain shapes our mathematical abilities, and how our mathematics opens up a window on the human mind.
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