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Connectome: How the Brain’s Wiring Makes Us Who We Are
by Sebastian Seung
New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012
We know that each of us is unique, but science has struggled to pinpoint where, …

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Babel No More: The Search for the World’s Most Extraordinary Language Learners
by Michael Erard
New York: Free Press, 2012
We all learn at least one language as children. But what does it take …

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Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter
by Terrence W. Deacon
New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2012
As physicists work toward completing a theory of the universe and biologists unravel the molecular …

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Islands of Genius: The Bountiful Mind of the Autistic, Acquired, and Sudden Savant
by Darold A. Treffert
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2010
Savant syndrome is a rare condition in which individuals with …

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The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
by Iain McGilchrist
New Haven, Connecticutt: Yale University Press, 2009
Why is the brain divided? Despite much research and …

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Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain
by Antonio Damasio
New York: Pantheon Books, 2010
From one of the most significant neuroscientists at work today, a pathbreaking investigation of a question that has …

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The Mind Within the Net: Models of Learning, Thinking, and Acting
by Manfred Spitzer
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1999
How does the brain work? How do billions of neurons bring about ideas, sensations, emotions, …

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I of the Vortex: From Neurons to Self
by Rodolfo R. Llinas
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2001
In I of the Vortex, Rodolfo Llinas, a founding father of modern brain science, presents an original …

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Dynamic Patterns: The Self-Organization of Brain and Behavior
by J. A. Scott Kelso
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1995
For the past twenty years Scott Kelso’s research has focused on extending the physical concepts of …

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Animal Minds: Beyond Cognition to Consciousness
by Donald R. Griffin
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001
In Animal Minds, Donald R. Griffin takes us on a guided tour of the recent explosion of scientific …