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Cognitive Science Books
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Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 587,838 ratings — published 2011
How the Mind Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.99 — 21,061 ratings — published 1997
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,518 ratings — published 1979
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,497 ratings — published 1994
Consciousness Explained (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.90 — 8,678 ratings — published 1991
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.05 — 246,118 ratings — published 1985
The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,285 ratings — published 1991
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 25,303 ratings — published 2002
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,926 ratings — published 1980
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.95 — 9,965 ratings — published 1994
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 131,102 ratings — published 2008
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 622,090 ratings — published 2005
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 34,486 ratings — published 2011
The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,966 ratings — published 1981
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,203 ratings — published 2007
I Am a Strange Loop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,658 ratings — published 2007
The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.20 — 40,189 ratings — published 2007
The Society of Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,357 ratings — published 1985
Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,286 ratings — published 1998
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.38 — 31,760 ratings — published 2017
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.95 — 74,374 ratings — published 2007
Mind: Introduction to Cognitive Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.67 — 244 ratings — published 1996
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.27 — 20,547 ratings — published 1998
Mindware: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.81 — 352 ratings — published 2000
Cognitive Science: An Introduction to the Science of the Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.86 — 163 ratings — published 2010
On Intelligence (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,966 ratings — published 2004
Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,966 ratings — published 2014
Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension (Philosophy of Mind)
by (shelved 31 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.88 — 310 ratings — published 2008
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.89 — 32,966 ratings — published 2010
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,086 ratings — published 2017
The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,271 ratings — published 2009
This Is Your Brain on Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.89 — 67,820 ratings — published 2006
The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 10,916 ratings — published 2010
Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,251 ratings — published 2010
How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 7,796 ratings — published 2012
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 34,947 ratings — published 2016
Where Mathematics Come From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.95 — 394 ratings — published 2000
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 88,451 ratings — published 1990
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 8,223 ratings — published 2007
Being You: A New Science of Consciousness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,843 ratings — published 2020
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.27 — 84,278 ratings — published 2018
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.88 — 27,881 ratings — published 2016
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.78 — 4,372 ratings — published 2013
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 65,917 ratings — published 2012
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.35 — 4,016 ratings — published 2009
The Emperor's New Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,649 ratings — published 1989
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,109 ratings — published 1987
The Brain: The Story of You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.25 — 22,799 ratings — published 2015
Hallucinations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.93 — 25,255 ratings — published 2012
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,718 ratings — published 2017
“The result is a narrowing of cultural imagination, where audiences are trained to expect entertainment that entertains but does not provoke, distracts but does not enlighten.”
― Bansang Pinipilas
― Bansang Pinipilas
“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
