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Books like The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human
The best books like The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human are Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain. The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human by V. S. Ramachandran is about neuroscience, consciousness, perception. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
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Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
V. S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee · Psychology
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Shares neuroscience and consciousness with The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human.
Read the summary → - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Oliver Sacks · Psychology
Oliver Sacks was a neurologist who thought in stories.
Shares neuroscience and perception with The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human.
Read the summary → - Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
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Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
David Eagleman · Psychology
David Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Stanford who argues that the conscious self is a late, small, and largely uninformed participant in the brain's activity.
Shares neuroscience and consciousness with The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human.
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- How the Mind Works
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Steven Pinker · Science
How the Mind Works is Steven Pinker's synthesis of cognitive science and evolutionary psychology, built around a central thesis: the mind is a computational system — a neural computer — shaped by natural selection to solve the adaptive problems that faced our ancestors on the Pleistocene savanna.
Shares consciousness and perception with The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human.
Read the summary → - The Brain That Changes Itself
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Norman Doidge · Psychology
Norman Doidge is a Canadian psychiatrist who traveled to interview the scientists and patients at the frontier of neuroplasticity research in the mid-2000s.
Both dig into perception.
Read the summary → - Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
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Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
Lisa Feldman Barrett · Psychology
Lisa Feldman Barrett wrote this short book — genuinely short at under thirty thousand words — as an accessible introduction to seven core findings of modern neuroscience, each presented as a lesson that overturns something most people believe.
Shares neuroscience and consciousness with The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human.
Read the summary → - How to Change Your Mind
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Michael Pollan · Science
Michael Pollan came to psychedelics late in life, as a skeptic.
Shares neuroscience and consciousness with The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human.
Read the summary → - How to Create a Mind
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Ray Kurzweil · Science
Ray Kurzweil's central claim in How to Create a Mind is that the neocortex — the part of the brain responsible for higher thought — operates on a single repeating algorithm called the pattern recognition theory of mind.
Shares neuroscience and consciousness with The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human.
Read the summary → - This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
Daniel J. Levitin · Science
Daniel Levitin came to neuroscience from the music industry — he was a record producer who worked with Stevie Wonder, the Grateful Dead, and Blue Öyster Cult before getting a PhD in psychology and cognitive neuroscience.
Shares neuroscience and perception with The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human.
Read the summary → - Consciousness Explained
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Daniel C. Dennett · Philosophy
Consciousness Explained is Daniel Dennett's attempt to replace what he calls the Cartesian Theater — the intuitive picture of consciousness as a single unified stream of experience observed by a self — with a model he calls Multiple Drafts.
Shares neuroscience and consciousness with The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human.
Read the summary → - Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
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Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
Antonio Damasio · Psychology
Antonio Damasio is a neurologist at USC whose work challenges the centuries-old idea that reason and emotion are separate faculties, with reason the reliable guide and emotion the unreliable interference.
Shares neuroscience and consciousness with The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human.
Read the summary → - How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
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How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
Lisa Feldman Barrett · Psychology
Lisa Feldman Barrett is a neuroscientist and psychologist at Northeastern University who has spent thirty years studying emotion, and her conclusion challenges the most widely held view of what emotions are.
Shares neuroscience and perception with The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human.
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Books like The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human: quick answers
What are the best books like The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human?
The best books like The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human by V. S. Ramachandran are Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind by V. S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman, How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker, The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human, such as neuroscience, consciousness, perception.
What should I read after The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human?
A natural next read after The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human is Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind by V. S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee. Shares neuroscience and consciousness with The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human. Other strong choices are The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman, How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker.
What books are similar to The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human by V. S. Ramachandran?
The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human centers on neuroscience, consciousness, perception. Books with a similar feel include Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind by V. S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman, How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker, The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
