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Top 10 Best Cognitive Science Books : The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales, How the Mind Works, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, The Selfish Gene, Consciousness Explained, Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience, The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science, Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School, Metaphors We Live By

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
AuthorOliver Sacks
ISBN0684853949
If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self—himself—he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it. Dr. Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients struggling to adapt to often bizarre worlds of neurological disorder. Here are people who...
How the Mind Works
AuthorSteven Pinker
ISBN0393318486
In this extraordinary bestseller, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists, does for the rest of the mind what he did for language in his 1994 book, The Language Instinct. He explains what the mind is, how it evolved, and how it allows us to see, think, feel, laugh, interact, enjoy...
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
AuthorSteven Pinker
ISBN0142003344
“In a work of outstanding clarity and sheer brilliance Steven Pinker banishes forever fears that a biological understanding of human nature threatens humane values.”
—Helena Cronin, author of The Ant and The Peacock

“A mind blowing, mind openingexpos. Pinker's profoundly...
The Selfish Gene
AuthorRichard Dawkins
ISBN0199291152
The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition—with a new Introduction by the Author

Inheriting the mantle of revolutionary biologist from Darwin, Watson, and Crick, Richard Dawkins forced an enormous change in the way we see ourselves and the world with the publication of The Selfish Gene....
Consciousness Explained
AuthorDaniel C. Dennett
ISBN0316180661
"Brilliant...as audacious as its title....Mr. Dennett's exposition is nothing short of brilliant." --George Johnson, New York Times Book Review

Consciousness Explained is a a full-scale exploration of human consciousness. In this landmark book, Daniel Dennett refutes the traditional,...
Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience
AuthorMaxwell Richard Bennett
In this provocative survey, a distinguished philosopher and a leading neuroscientist outline the conceptual problems at the heart of cognitive neuroscience.

Surveys the conceptual problems inherent in many neuroscientific theories.
Encourages neuroscientists to pay more attention...
The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
AuthorNorman Doidge
An astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable. Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Norman Doidge, M.D., traveled the country to meet both the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the people whose lives...
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
AuthorDaniel Goleman
Everyone knows that high IQ is no guarantee of success, happiness, or virtue, but until Emotional Intelligence, we could only guess why. Daniel Goleman's brilliant report from the frontiers of psychology and neuroscience offers startling new insight into our "two minds"—the rational and the...
Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School
AuthorJohn Medina
ISBN0979777704
Most of us have no idea what’s really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should know—like the need for physical activity to get your brain working its best.

How do we learn? What exactly do sleep and stress do...
Metaphors We Live By
AuthorGeorge Lakoff
ISBN0226468011
The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless...
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
AuthorAntónio R. Damásio
Since Descartes famously proclaimed, "I think, therefore I am," science has often overlooked emotions as the source of a person’s true being. Even modern neuroscience has tended, until recently, to concentrate on the cognitive aspects of brain function, disregarding emotions. This attitude...
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
AuthorDavid Eagleman
ISBN0307377334
Let me start with the easy stuff. On a literary note, this book is entertaining. However, it reads more like a series of interesting essays on neuroscience rather than a book.

Let me move on to the more interesting stuff. This book is deceptive. Eagleman uses a "slight of hand" writing style....
The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding
AuthorHumberto R. Maturana
ISBN0877736421
"Knowing how we know" is the subject of this book. Its authors present a new view of cognition that has important social and ethical implications, for, they assert, the only world we humans can have is the one we create together through the actions of our coexistence. Written for a general audience as...
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
AuthorOliver Sacks
ISBN0330343475
I've read about neurologist Oliver Sacks in other books but I'm pretty sure this was my first experience reading one of his books and I actually really enjoyed it. Sacks writes up narratives for patients he works with or people he meets with neurological conditions in a way that makes it much easier to...
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
AuthorV.S. Ramachandran
ISBN0688172172
Neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran is internationally renowned for uncovering answers to the deep and quirky questions of human nature that few scientists have dared to address. His bold insights about the brain are matched only by the stunning simplicity of his experiments -- using such low-tech...
Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
AuthorRick Hanson
ISBN1572246952
Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and other great teachers were born with brains built essentially like anyone else's. Then they used their minds to change their brains in ways that changed history.

With the new breakthroughs in neuroscience, combined with the insights from thousands of years of...
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
AuthorJill Bolte Taylor
ISBN1430300612
Jill Taylor was a 37-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist when a blood vessel exploded in her brain. Through the eyes of a curious scientist, she watched her mind deteriorate whereby she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life. Because of her understanding of the brain, her...
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
AuthorDouglas R. Hofstadter
ISBN0465026567
Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of “maps” or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it. If life can grow out of the formal chemical substrate of...
Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking
AuthorDaniel C. Dennett
ISBN0393348784
Over a storied career, Daniel C. Dennett has engaged questions about science and the workings of the mind. His answers have combined rigorous argument with strong empirical grounding. And a lot of fun.
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking offers seventy-seven of Dennett’s most successful...
The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul
AuthorDouglas R. Hofstadter
ISBN0553345842
Brilliant, shattering, mind-jolting, The Mind's I is a searching, probing cosmic journey of the mind that goes deeply into the problem of self and self-consciousness as anything written in our time. From verbalizing chimpanzees to scientific speculations involving machines with souls, from the...
Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships
AuthorDaniel Goleman
ISBN0553803522
Emotional Intelligence was an international phenomenon, appearing on the New York Times bestseller list for over a year and selling more than five million copies worldwide. Now, once again, Daniel Goleman has written a groundbreaking synthesis of the latest findings in biology and brain science,...
Awakenings
AuthorOliver Sacks
ISBN0375704051
Awakenings--which inspired the major motion picture--is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. Oliver...
At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
AuthorStuart A. Kauffman
ISBN0195111303
A major scientific revolution has begun, a new paradigm that rivals Darwin's theory in importance. At its heart is the discovery of the order that lies deep within the most complex of systems, from the origin of life, to the workings of giant corporations, to the rise and fall of great civilizations....
The Illusion of Conscious Will
AuthorDaniel M. Wegner
ISBN0262731622
Do we consciously cause our actions, or do they happen to us? Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, theologians, and lawyers have long debated the existence of free will versus determinism. In this book Daniel Wegner offers a novel understanding of the issue. Like actions, he argues, the...
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
AuthorPeter C. Brown
ISBN0674729013
To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head....
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
AuthorJoseph Murphy
ISBN0553583182
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind has been a bestseller since its first publication in 1963, selling many millions of copies since its original publication. It is one of the most brilliant and beloved spiritual self-help works of all time which can help you heal yourself, banish your fears, sleep...
The Brain: The Story of You
AuthorDavid Eagleman
ISBN1101870532
Locked in the silence and darkness of your skull, your brain fashions the rich narratives of your reality and your identity. Join renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman for a journey into the questions at the mysterious heart of our existence. What is reality? Who are “you”? How do you make decisions?...
Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant
AuthorDaniel Tammet
ISBN1416535071
One of the world's fifty living autistic savants is the first and only to tell his compelling and inspiring life story - and explain how his incredible mind works.

This unique first-person account offers a window into the mind of a high-functioning, 27-year-old British autistic savant with...
Hallucinations
AuthorOliver Sacks
ISBN0307957241
Have you ever seen something that wasn’t really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing?

Hallucinations don’t belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication,...
SuperSense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable
AuthorBruce M. Hood
ISBN0061452645
“In an account chock full of real-world examples reinforced by experimental research, Hood’s marvelous book is an important contribution to the psychological literature that is revealing the actuality of our very irrational human nature.” — Science

In the vein of Malcolm Gladwell’s...
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
AuthorPatrick Süskind
ISBN0140120831
An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder.

In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste...
The Spinoza Problem
AuthorIrvin D. Yalom
ISBN0465029639
When sixteen-year-old Alfred Rosenberg is called into his headmaster’s office for anti-Semitic remarks he made during a school speech, he is forced, as punishment, to memorize passages about Spinoza from the autobiography of the German poet Goethe. Rosenberg is stunned to discover that Goethe,...
Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One
AuthorJoe Dispenza
ISBN1401938086
You are not doomed by your genes and hardwired to be a certain way for the rest of your life. A new science is emerging that empowers all human beings to create the reality they choose. In Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, renowned author, speaker, researcher, and chiropractor Dr. Joe Dispenza combines...
The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
AuthorDavid Brooks
With unequaled insight and brio, David Brooks, the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bobos in Paradise, has long explored and explained the way we live. Now, with the intellectual curiosity and emotional wisdom that make his columns among the most read in the nation, Brooks turns to...
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