Moonwalking with Einstein is a fun book, but remember to be wary of books about the brain that are not written by neuroscience experts. From the NYT book review

Moonwalking with Einstein is a fun book, but remember to be wary of books about the brain that are not written by neuroscience experts. From the NYT book review: '(Irregular images aside, Foer’s missteps are few. Discussing the neurological underpinnings of memory, he repeats some commonly held myths about it, for instance, that obscure facts — “where I celebrated my seventh birthday” — are “lurking somewhere in my brain, waiting for the right cue to pop back into consciousness.” In fact, not only are many such memories lost for good, even the memories we do have are often quasi-fictionalized reconstructions.) http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/books/review/book-review-moonwalking-with-einstein-by-joshua-foer.html?pagewanted=2&_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/books/review/book-review-m...