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Books like 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 V. S. Ramachandran is about neuroscience, consciousness, perception. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 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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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.
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.
Read the summary → - 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.
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.
Read the summary → - A Brief History of Time
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Stephen Hawking · Science
A Brief History of Time is Stephen Hawking's attempt to explain the biggest questions in physics — where the universe came from, how it behaves, and where it might be going — to readers with no scientific training.
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