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The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.20 — 41,025 ratings — published 2007
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 609,790 ratings — published 2011
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 252,397 ratings — published 1985
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 35,041 ratings — published 2011
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,998 ratings — published 2007
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.27 — 20,857 ratings — published 1998
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.27 — 86,731 ratings — published 2018
Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School (Book & DVD)
by (shelved 10 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 34,700 ratings — published 2008
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 8,444 ratings — published 2007
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 573,766 ratings — published 2012
Hallucinations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.93 — 25,762 ratings — published 2012
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.90 — 33,667 ratings — published 2010
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.07 — 483,297 ratings — published 2012
The Mind's Eye (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.93 — 14,025 ratings — published 2010
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 17,686 ratings — published 2008
This Is Your Brain on Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.89 — 68,875 ratings — published 2006
Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,144 ratings — published 2002
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.88 — 95,233 ratings — published 2011
How the Mind Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.99 — 21,328 ratings — published 1997
The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 10,984 ratings — published 2010
How We Decide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 41,800 ratings — published 2009
On Intelligence (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,993 ratings — published 2004
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 13,728 ratings — published 2017
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.36 — 235,919 ratings — published 2017
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 303,100 ratings — published 2014
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 242,012 ratings — published 2012
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 132,754 ratings — published 2008
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,935 ratings — published 2010
An Anthropologist on Mars (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 24,200 ratings — published 1995
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 628,984 ratings — published 2005
Proust Was a Neuroscientist (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 9,076 ratings — published 2007
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.92 — 29,897 ratings — published 2004
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.88 — 29,289 ratings — published 2016
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.25 — 14,065 ratings — published 2014
The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 15,752 ratings — published 2014
Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 42,270 ratings — published 2012
Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.64 — 5,636 ratings — published 2013
A User's Guide to the Brain: Perception, Attention, and the Four Theaters of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,221 ratings — published 2001
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.95 — 127,034 ratings — published 2009
Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 15,167 ratings — published 2009
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as brain-science)
avg rating 3.92 — 33,261 ratings — published 2006
The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,126 ratings — published 1999
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 21,757 ratings — published 1977
The Mind & the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 6,772 ratings — published 2001
Being You: A New Science of Consciousness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,316 ratings — published 2020
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.25 — 44,104 ratings — published 2014
The Brain: The Story of You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.25 — 23,494 ratings — published 2015
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 196,794 ratings — published 2016
The Brain's Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as brain-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,927 ratings — published 2015
“Neuroplasticity isn't just a scientific concept; it’s the foundation of change. The brain is capable of re-writing its own script.”
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“The extension of minds into the world through the use of artifacts was perhaps the last vital step in the evolution of culture that underlies the modern mind. Written symbols, alphabets and number systems, are ways of using the world to hold ideas. These external symbols allow a society a capacity for systematic thinking that would be impossible otherwise, a process we have referred to earlier as progressive externalization. Indeed, these external devices are not just static devices for memory storage. We have built external devices that process information, mirroring the process of thought inside our heads, at least loosely. Consider numerical calculation. You are limited in the amount of numbers you can easily add in your head. A paper and pencil increase this ability tremendously by letting you manipulate external symbols and hold intermediate steps in the calculation. By using artifacts that themselves process symbols, such as a handheld calculator, however, you can dramatically extend the realm of thought.”
― Liars, Lovers, and Heroes: What the New Brain Science Reveals About How We Become Who We Are – Understanding Cultural Biology and the Ancient Systems Behind Our Humanity
― Liars, Lovers, and Heroes: What the New Brain Science Reveals About How We Become Who We Are – Understanding Cultural Biology and the Ancient Systems Behind Our Humanity
