Stanislas Dehaene has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 3 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.3★ across 16 ratings. The most-rated is Consciousness and the Brain.
Consciousness and the Brain
Summary
How does the 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 who is interested in cutting-edge science and technology and the vast philosophical, personal, and ethical implications of finally quantifying consciousness.
©2014 Stanislas Dehaene (P)2014 Tantor
How We Learn
Summary
“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.
©2020 Stanislas Dehaene (P)2020 Penguin Audio
La plus belle histoire de l'intelligence
Summary
D'où vient l'intelligence ? Est-elle une exclusivité humaine ? Les machines peuvent-elles nous dépasser ? Elle a émergé avec la vie, s'est développée au fil de l'évolution, s'est magnifiée avec l'espèce humaine... Grâce à cette mystérieuse intelligence, nous avons tout inventé : l'outil, le langage, l'écriture, l'éducation, la science, et la faculté de nous interroger sur le monde. Aujourd'hui, cette belle histoire connaît une révolution sans précédent. Pour la première fois, le cerveau humain peut visualiser son propre fonctionnement. Pour la première fois, il transfère une partie de son intelligence dans des machines capables d'apprentissage. Au fil d'un dialogue fascinant, le grand spécialiste du cerveau Stanislas Dehaene et celui des neurones artificiels Yann Le Cun racontent, avec Jacques Girardon, cette longue aventure, des origines animales à nos jours, et s'interrogent sur notre futur. Les ordinateurs vont-ils bientôt éprouver des émotions, se doter d'une morale ? L'art, la beauté, la capacité d'improviser, d'anticiper, sont-ils à la portée de cerveaux immatériels ? Ce que les auteurs esquissent ici, ce n'est rien moins que la prochaine étape de notre évolution. À l'évidence, la lecture d'un tel livre change déjà radicalement le regard que nous portons sur nous-mêmes.
©2018 Robert Laffont (P)2019 Audible Studios