Augmenting Cognition
暫譯: 增強認知
Segev, Ivan, Markram, Henry
- 出版商: CRC
- 出版日期: 2021-04-15
- 售價: $3,950
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $3,753
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 220
- 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
- ISBN: 143983993X
- ISBN-13: 9781439839935
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The Human brain is only 100,000 years old. Yet, this newly evolved organ endows us with unique creative capabilities beyond all other living creatures, including the gift to understand itself. As our very survival and success in life depends on utilizing our brain's power, intense efforts have begun worldwide to understand the brain, reverse-engineer it and even augment its capacity. Towards this end we harness every trick in the book of mathematics, physics, chemistry, pharmacology, biology, psychology, as well as computer science, information sciences, and engineering - giving rise to the birth to the new AugCog Era.
The new AugCog research field focuses on the development of scientifically-based rigorous approaches, including brain-computer interfaces and the use of various drugs, for restoring and augmenting cognition. The field includes the study of the relationship between basic operational states of the brain, such as sleep, or daily activities such as dance and their impact on augmenting cognitive capabilities. This book confronts our entry into the AugCog Era through a series of contributions from the world's best know experts. The book is divided into two sections, the first of which discusses state-of-the-art methodologies; and the last provide some perspective on the social and ethical issues. These two parts are separated by an interlude in cognition, where a fascinating story of the savant syndrome is told.商品描述(中文翻譯)
人類的大腦只有十萬年的歷史。然而，這個新進化的器官賦予我們獨特的創造能力，超越所有其他生物，包括理解自身的能力。由於我們的生存和生活成功依賴於利用大腦的力量，全球已開始進行密集的努力，以理解大腦、逆向工程它，甚至增強其能力。為此，我們運用數學、物理學、化學、藥理學、生物學、心理學，以及計算機科學、資訊科學和工程等各種學科的所有技巧，促成了新增強認知時代（AugCog Era）的誕生。
新的增強認知研究領域專注於開發基於科學的嚴謹方法，包括腦機介面和各種藥物的使用，以恢復和增強認知。該領域包括研究大腦基本運作狀態之間的關係，例如睡眠或日常活動如舞蹈，以及它們對增強認知能力的影響。
本書通過來自世界知名專家的系列貢獻，面對我們進入增強認知時代（AugCog Era）的挑戰。該書分為兩個部分，第一部分討論最先進的方法論；最後一部分則提供一些社會和倫理問題的觀點。這兩部分之間有一段關於認知的插曲，講述了一個迷人的天才症候群故事。
作者簡介
Idan Segev is the David & Inez Myers Professor in Computational Neuroscience and former director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation (ICNC) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research team utilizes computational tools to study how neurons, the elementary microchips of the brain, compute and dynamically adapt to our ever-changing environment. The ultimate goal is to unravel how local fine variations within the cortical network underlie specific computations (e.g., the orientation of a bar in the visual system) and may give rise to certain brain diseases or to a healthy individual brain.
Henry Markram is the Project Director of the Blue Brain Project, Director of the Center for Neuroscience & Technology and co-Director of EPFL's Brain Mind Institute (BMI). At the BMI, in the Laboratory for Neural Microcircuitry, Markram has continued his work to unravel the blueprint of the neocortical column, building state-of-the-art tools to carry out multineuron patch clamp recordings combined with laser and electrical stimulation as well as multi-site electrical recording, chemical imaging and gene expression. The ultimate aim of his ambitious Blue Brain Project is to simulate the brains of mammals with a high level of biological accuracy and study the steps involved in the emergence of biological intelligence.作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Idan Segev 是耶路撒冷希伯來大學計算神經科學的 David & Inez Myers 教授，並曾擔任神經計算跨學科中心 (ICNC) 的主任。他的研究團隊利用計算工具研究神經元，這些神經元是大腦的基本微型晶片，如何計算並動態適應我們不斷變化的環境。最終目標是揭示皮層網絡內部的局部細微變化如何支持特定的計算（例如，視覺系統中條形的方向），並可能導致某些腦部疾病或健康的個體大腦。
Henry Markram 是藍腦計畫的專案主任，神經科學與技術中心的主任，以及瑞士洛桑聯邦理工學院 (EPFL) 腦與心智研究所 (BMI) 的共同主任。在 BMI 的神經微電路實驗室中，Markram 繼續他的工作，揭示新皮層柱的藍圖，並建立最先進的工具來進行多神經元貼片鉗記錄，結合激光和電刺激，以及多點電記錄、化學成像和基因表達。他雄心勃勃的藍腦計畫的最終目標是以高生物準確度模擬哺乳動物的大腦，並研究生物智能出現的過程。
