书名：Inside Your Brain: Ten Discoveries That Reveal How the Brain Works / 大脑探秘：揭示大脑运作的十项发现
定价：145.0
ISBN：9780500653807
作者：Lucy Ann Unwin , Caswell Barry
版次：1
出版时间：2025-07

内容提要：

题 目：Inside Your Brain: Ten Discoveries That Reveal How the Brain Works / 大脑探秘：揭示大脑运作的十项发现

作 者：Lucy Ann Unwin , Caswell Barry

出 版：Thames & Hudson，2025

装 帧：精装，96页

语种：英文

尺 寸：19.8*27.1 cm

 

 

这场穿越科学历史的喜剧之旅，通过十个令人瞠目的意外事件与实验，带领我们深入大脑内部，探索其运作之谜。

人脑之复杂难解众所周知。这个器官对我们的运作至关重要——重要到你不能随便用棍子戳弄试探。但倘若真的不幸被木棍刺穿头颅，你会发现...原来能从中获得如此多的启示。

由神经科学教授卡斯威尔·巴里与童书作家露西·安·昂温联袂撰写的《大脑奇航记》，以妙趣横生的笔触带领小读者穿越历史长河，揭秘十项颠覆性发现——正是这些突破塑造了当今我们对大脑运作的认知。

古埃及人在战场上意外发现大脑比想象中更重要；路易吉·伽伐尼通过电流刺激死蛙腿部，揭开了脑细胞的工作机制；菲尼亚斯·盖吉在铁路工地遭遇重大意外，证明人类被铁棍贯穿头颅后仍可存活；而几只懵懂的小猫则帮助我们理解了大脑的发育机制。

《大脑探秘》更触及当下与未来的探索可能：比如我们如何通过人工智能研究大脑信息处理机制，而无须进行人体实验。这场对最令人费解的科学领域展开的趣味探索，必将使小读者沉浸其中，收获知识与欢欣。

 

This comedic journey through science history explores ten mind-bending accidents and experiments that take us inside the brain to discover how it works.

The human brain is famously complex and difficult to understand. The brain is also essential to how we function―so much so, that you can't simply poke a stick at it to see what happens. However, if you accidentally poked a stick through your brain, it turns out there’s a lot you can learn. . . .

Written by professor of neuroscience Caswell Barry, together with his good friend, the children's author Lucy Ann Unwin, Inside Your Brain takes young readers on an irreverent gallop through history to uncover ten groundbreaking discoveries that have led to our current understanding of how the brain works.

The ancient Egyptians discovered in battle that the brain was more important than they'd thought; Luigi Galvani sent electric shocks through dead frogs' legs and uncovered how brain cells work; Phineas Gage's unfortunate accident on the railroads revealed that you can survive a metal rod through the head, while some unwitting kittens helped us understand how our brain develops.

Inside Your Brain also touches on our present and future potential to continue testing the brain, such as how we can learn an enormous amount about how the brain processes information from AI without experimenting on a human subject. This entertaining and engaging deep dive into the most mind-boggling area of science is sure to fascinate and delight young readers.