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I really enjoy books on neuroscience that change the way I think about perception. Phantoms in the Brain by V S Ramachandran - a book about how the brain organ
by mjlee 6y ago
I really enjoy books on neuroscience that change the way I think about perception.
Phantoms in the Brain by V S Ramachandran - a book about how the brain organises itself in bizarre edge cases. The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes us Human. The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes us Human by the same author is also worth reading.
Admissions by Henry Marsh - An experienced neurosurgeon's account of how his job has changed over the decades. Really interesting discussion of what's important and how people react in a real crisis.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat by Oliver Sacks. More of a collection of interesting curiousities but does an amazing job of humanising the discussion of brain.
- saheb37 6y agoI have quite enjoyed a couple of books by David Eagleman: The Brain, and Sum.
- pas 6y agoIt's not a book, but a great infotainment lecture series by Robert Sapolsky (the intro to human biology course at Stanford, 2010) https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL848F2368C90DDC3D https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL848F2368C90DDC3D And of course cites Sack, and a lot of amazing research/studies/results. The caveat is that some results are not that solid, and he mentions priming, which we know does not replicate.
- base2john 6y agoalso great read is Tales from Both Sides of the Brain by Michael Gazzaniga.