Oliver Sacks - The Mind's Eye

Book is very similar to the Man Who Took His Wife for a Hat and Anthropologist in Mars and actually refers to those books several times in notes and footnotes. In fact, the amount of notes has apparently increased. One chapter can now be expanded from a fate of a single patient to numerous other historical examples ( Read more... )

Eric R. Kandel - In Search of Memory (2006)

Eric R. Kandel is an Austrian-born Jewish-American neurologist and Nobel laureate. This books is his sort of an autobiography and memoir of research he has taken part of. His interest in psychoanalysis lead to research in neurological basis of memory.

( Life, neurology, psychology and money )

Oliver Sacks - A leg to stand on

Oliver Sacks is a British-born neurologist who has written about his various cases; but in this particular book he tells about what happened after his accident in Norway in 1974 - and how his leg vanished…
( I can see my leg but where is it? )

Igor Aleksander - How to Build a Mind

Another book memester lent me.Igor Aleksander is a South-African-born British engineer and cybernetist. At the time of writing this book, he was a Professor of Neural Engineering Systems at the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London. The main theme of this book is what is consciousness and can ( Read more... )

Malcolm Gladwell - Blink - The Power of Thinking without ThinkingThe book begins with art forgery - how art experts can sometimes spot a fake with a first glance because it "feels wrong". How people can make unconscious adjustments before the fact reaches their conscious mind. How John Gottman accurately predicts the success of a marriage based on ( Read more... )

Tom Stafford & Matt Webb - Mind Hacks - Tips and Tools for Using your brain.

Despite of the (sub)title, this is not a user's manual for human brain. What the tricks - or hacks in this book - do is to make the reader more aware of how their brain operates.
( Neural static is not a bug but a feature )

Gerald Edelman - Wider Than the Sky

This is another book memester lent me. Gerald Edelman is an American neuroscientist and Nober Prize Laureate for "Physiology or Medicine". In this book he writes about neurology and consciousness. The name of the book comes from a poem of Emily Dickinson.
( Convoluted emergence of meaning from the context of unusual use of vocabulary )