《认知科学》系统地介绍认知科学的概念和方法，反映认知科学、脑科学、人工智能等领域的最新研究成果，综合地探索人类智能和机器智能的性质和规律。认知科学是研究心智和智能的科学，包括从感觉的输入到复杂问题的求解，从人类个体到人类社会的智能活动，以及人类智能和机器智能的性质。它是现代心理学、人工智能、神经科学、语言学、人类学乃至自然哲学等学科交叉发展的结果。认知科学研究的目的就是要说明和解释人在完成认知活动时是如何进行信息加工的。认知科学的兴起标志着对以人类为中心的心智和智能活动的研究已进入到新的阶段，认知科学的发展将进一步为信息科学技术的智能化作出巨大贡献。

《认知科学哲学问题研究》是科学技术哲学文库之一。认知科学哲学问题研究是目前科学哲学的一个非常新颖、非常前沿的领域。第一，《认知科学哲学问题研究》对认知科学的哲学基础做了深入的挖掘和分析，弄清了认知科学的思想渊源；第二，对认知科学的本体论、认识论和方法论进行了探讨，特别是对其中的命题态度、感受特性、知识表征、假设与隐喻、认知模型等做了研究；第三，对认知的语境依赖性进行了分析，探讨了语境与认知推理、模型推理、认知构架：语法隐喻、语用模型的关系；第四，对当代认知科学家和哲学家皮亚杰的建构论、福多的模块性、普特南的思想实验和萨伽德的认知连贯性思想做了探讨；第五，对认知与类比、计算、文化、学习、情感的关系及其相互影响进行了研究。 《认知科学哲学问题研究》是一本研究认知科学哲学的著作，适合大学哲学系和心理学系的师生以及本科以上的哲学工作者和心理学工作者阅读。

Combining insights from both cognitive neuroscience and molecular biology, two of the world's leading experts address memory from molecules and cells to brain systems and cognition. What is memory and where in the brain is it stored? How is memory storage accomplished? This book touches on these questions and many more, showing how the recent convergence of psychology and biology has resulted in an exciting new synthesis of knowledge about learning and remembering. Memory: From Mind to Molecules is an ideal primer for courses on learning and memory or for general readers who are interested in discovering what is currently known about one of the basic aspects of human existence.

Human communication is grounded in fundamentally cooperative, even shared, intentions. In this original and provocative account of the evolutionary origins of human communication, Michael Tomasello connects the fundamentally cooperative structure of human communication (initially discovered by Paul Grice) to the especially cooperative structure of human (as opposed to other primate) social interaction. Tomasello argues that human cooperative communication rests on a psychological infrastructure of shared intentionality (joint attention, common ground), evolved originally for collaboration and culture more generally. The basic motives of the infrastructure are helping and sharing: humans communicate to request help, inform others of things helpfully, and share attitudes as a way of bonding within the cultural group. These cooperative motives each created different functional pressures for conventionalizing grammatical constructions. Requesting help in the immediate you-and-me and here-and-now, for example, required very little grammar, but informing and sharing required increasingly complex grammatical devices. Drawing on empirical research into gestural and vocal communication by great apes and human infants (much of it conducted by his own research team), Tomasello argues further that humans' cooperative communication emerged first in the natural gestures of pointing and pantomiming. Conventional communication, first gestural and then vocal, evolved only after humans already possessed these natural gestures and their shared intentionality infrastructure along with skills of cultural learning for creating and passing along jointly understood communicative conventions. Challenging the Chomskian view that linguistic knowledge is innate, Tomasello proposes instead that the most fundamental aspects of uniquely human communication are biological adaptations for cooperative social interaction in general and that the purely linguistic dimensions of human communication are cultural conventions and constructions created by and passed along within particular cultural groups.

《千万别上魔术的当》讲述的是关于魔术的神经科学。书中以魔术作为切入点，讲述认知神经科学的相关知识，从而揭示了魔术背后的秘密，进而从魔术背后的神经科学看穿日常生活中的小骗局。 　　《千万别上魔术的当》适合对魔术及神经科学感兴趣的各类读者阅读。

《清华大学认知科学译丛：脑与语言认知》收集了来自Nature、Science、Brain and Language、NeuroImage、Brain and Cognition、Proceedings of the National Academy of Science（PNAS）等近年来欧美顶级国际学术期刊中数十篇有关脑与语言认知方面的文章，知识新颖，内容丰富，代表了本学科发展的国际前沿。《清华大学认知科学译丛：脑与语言认知》编译的目的是探索词汇在人脑中的表达方法和操作方式，探索它们的构建原理和计算理论，探索脑认知规律，改善我们对自然语言的认识，促进语言学、认知科学、人工智能等学科的发展，脑的理论模型对认知科学和人类语言理解有重大意义。《清华大学认知科学译丛：脑与语言认知》还将为我们实验方法的有效性解释提供建议，使我们能够用计算机理解语言并创建新方法。书中的很多内容在清华大学本科生和研究生课程中进行了讲授，深受广大学生的欢迎和好评。从书中可以看出顶级科学家开阔的观察视野、奇特的研究思路，这些内容和结果均来自于实验，保证了结论的真实性、可靠性。本书内容广泛，丰富多彩，图文并茂，集权威性、真实性、趣味性、新颖性、知识性和综合性子一体。全书共分6章。本书可以为该领域的研究人员节约大量的收集英文资料和阅读资料的宝贵时间，使之在较短的时间内系统全面地了解该领域进展。本书可作为大脑认知、脑神经成像、语言学、神经语言学、认知语言学、计算语言学等领域的研究人员和高等院校、科研院所本科生、研究生的参考书。