Cognitive Neuroscience


Cognitive Neuroscience: The Biology of the Mind
The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
The Cognitive Neurosciences III
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
Principles of Neural Science
The Female Brain
The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
Thinking, Fast and Slow
The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
The Brain: The Story of You
Wij zijn ons brein: van baarmoeder tot Alzheimer
Abhijit Naskar
There is no reality, there is only hallucination. Reality is hallucination we agree on.
Abhijit Naskar, Karadeniz Chronicle: The Novel

Steven Pinker
Educated people, of course, know that perception, cognition, language, and emotion are rooted in the brain. But it is still tempting to think of the brain as it was shown in old educational cartoons, as a control panel with gauges and levers operated by a user — the self, the soul, the ghost, the person, the “me.” But cognitive neuroscience is showing that the self, too, is just another network of brain systems. [C]ognitive neuroscientists have not only exorcised the ghost but have shown that th ...more
Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

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