Bibliography
Books featured on Brain Science
Books (arranged alphabetically by author) featured on Brain Science (formerly the Brain Science Podcast).
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(NOTE: *indicates episode of Books and Ideas that was included in the BS feed.)
Adolphs, Ralph and Anderson, David J, The Neuroscience of Emotion: A New Synthesis; BS 151.
Amthor, Frank, Neurobiology for Dummies and Neuroscience for Dummies; BS 101.
Anderson, David J, The Nature of the Beast: How Emotions Guide Us; BS 195.
Anderson, Michael, After Phrenology: Neural Reuse and the Interactive Brain; BS 124.
Ariely, Dan, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (B&I 19*); Audible link.
Baars, Bernard, On Consciousness: Science & Subjectivity; BS 177.
Badre, David, On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done; BS 190.
Bainbridge, David, Teenagers: A Natural History; BS 63; and, Beyond the Zonules of Zinn: A Fantastic Journey Through Your Brain; BS 32, BS 118.
Baron-Cohen, Simon, The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention; BS 181.
Barrett, Lisa, How Emotions Are Made; BS 135; Audible link.
Begley, Sharon, Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves; BS 10; Audible link.
Beilock, Sian, Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal About Getting It Right When You Have To; BS 76; Audible link.
Benedetti, Fabrizio, Placebo Effects: Understanding the Mechanisms in Health and Disease, and, The Patient's Brain: The Neuroscience Behind the Doctor-Patient Relationship; BS 77.
Berent, Iris, The Blind Storyteller: How We Reason About Human Nature; BS 182.
Bergen, Benjamin, Louder Than Words: The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning; BS 94.
Blackmore, Susan, Consciousness: An Introduction; BS 13.
Blakeslee, Sandra, The Body Has a Mind of its Own: How Body Maps in Your Brain Help You Do (Almost) Everything Better; BS 21; BS 23; Audible link.
Brizendine, Louann, The Female Brain; BS 20; Audible link.
Brown, Stuart, Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorate the Soul; BS 60.
Burnett, Dean, Happy Brain: Where Happiness Comes From, and Why; BS 149.
Burton, Robert A., On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not; BS 42; BS 43; and, A Skeptic's Guide to the Mind: What Neuroscience Can and Cannot Tell Us About Ourselves, BS 96.
Buzsáki, György, Rhythms of the Brain; BS 31; and, The Brain from Inside Out; BS 172.
Calvo, Paco, Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Intelligence; BS 206.
Campbell, Virginia, Are You Sure? The Unconscious Origin of Certainty; BS 173
Carroll, Sean, The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself; BS 160.
Castel, Alan, Better with Age: The Psychology of Successful Aging, BS 154.
Chemero, Anthony, Phenomenology: An Introduction; BS 123.
Churchland, Patricia, Brain-Wise: Studies in Neurophilosophy; and, Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind-Brain; BS 55; and, Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality; BS 81; Audible link. Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition, BS 158.
Clark, Andy, Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind; BS 126.
Cobb, Matthew, The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience; BS 171.
Craig, Bud, How Do You Feel?: An Interoceptive Moment with Your Neurobiological Self; BS 121.
Crick, Francis, Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul; BS 5.
Damasio, Antonio, Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain; BS 90. Audible link; and The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures; BS 160; and Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious; BS 189.
Deacon, Terrence, Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter; B&I 47.
Dehaene, Stanislas, Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts; BS 160.
Dehaene, Stanislas, How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now; BS 167.
Dennett, Daniel, Consciousness Explained; and, Freedom Evolves; BS 13.
Dennett, Daniel, From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds; BS 160.
Doidge, Norman, The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science; BS 26; Audible link.
Doidge, Norman The Brain's Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity; BS 116;Audible link.
Dowling, John, The Great Brain Debate: Nature or Nurture?; BS 4.
Dowling, John, Understanding the Brain: From Cells to Behavior to Cognition; BS 153.
Eagleman, David, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain; BS 75; Audible link; and, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain; BS 187.
Evans, Dylan, Emotion: The Science of Sentiment; BS 11; Audible link.
Fernandez, Alvaro, The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness: How to Optimize Brain Health and Performance at Any Age; BS 100.
Feinberg, Todd, and Mallat, Jon, The Ancient Origins of Consciousness: How the Brain Created Experience; BS 128.
Feinberg, Todd, and Mallat, Jon, Consciousness Demystified; BS 160.
Fields, R. Douglas, The Other Brain: The Scientific and Medical Breakthroughs That Will Heal Our Brains and Revolutionize Our Health; BS 169.
Fleming, Stephen, Know Thyself: The Science of Self-Awareness; BS 185.
Frances, Allen, Saving Normal: An Insider's Revolt Against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life; BS 102.
Friederici, Angela, Language in Our Brain: The Origins of a Uniquely Human Capacity; BS 144.
Frith, Chris, Making Up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World; BS 57.
Fugate, Jennifer, Movement Matters: How Embodied Cognition Informs Teaching and Learning; BS 200.
Gallistel, Randy, Memory and the Computational Brain: Why Cognitive Science Will Transform Neuroscience; BS 66.
Gazzaniga, Michael, Who's in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain; BS 82; Audible link; and Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience; BS 117; Audible link.
George, Daniel, and, Whitehouse, Peter, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis; (B&I 36*); Audible link.
Gigerenzer, Gerd, Gut Feelings:The Intelligence of the Unconscious; BS 19; Audible link .
Gladwell, Malcolm, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking; BS 13; Audible link.
Goldberg, Elkhonon, The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind; BS 16; The Wisdom Paradox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger As Your Brain Grows Older; BS 17; BS 18; The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness: How to Optimize Brain Fitness and Performance at Any Age; BS 100; Creativity: The Human Brain in the Age of Innovation; BS 143.
Goldstein, Bruce, The Mind: Consciousness, Prediction, and the Brain; BS 180.
Grandin, Temple, The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum; BS 98; BS 99.
Graziano, Michael, Consciousness and the Social Brain; BS 108; The Spaces Between Us: A Story of Neuroscience, Evolution, and Human Nature; BS 142; Rethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience; BS 162.
Greenspan, Stanley, and, Shanker, Stuart, The First Idea: How Symbols, Language, and Intelligence Evolved from Our Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans; BS 6; BS 7.
Greenwood, Pamela M., Nutruing the Older Brain and Mind; BS 87.
Harris, Bill, Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain Is Built; BS 201.
Hawkins, Jeff, On Intelligence; BS 2; BS 13; BS 38; Audible link; A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence; BS 183
Herculano-Houzel, Suzana, The Human Advantage: How Our Brains Became Remarkable; BS 133.
Herz, Rachel, The Scent of Desire: Discovering Our Enigmatic Sense of Smell; BS 34; That's Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion; BS 86; Audible link.
Heyes, Cecilia, Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking; BS 168.
Hickok, Greg, The Myth of Mirror Neurons: The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition. BS 112. Audible link.
Hood, Bruce, Supersense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable (B&I 34*) Audible link; The Self Illusion: How The Social Brain Creates Identity'; BS 88; Audible link.
Humphries, Mark, The Spike: An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 Seconds; BS 186.
Jasanoff, Alan: The Biological Mind: How Brain, Body, and Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are. BS 146.
Johnson, Mark, and Tucker, Donald: Out of the Cave: A Natural Philosophy of Mind and Knowing. BS 193.
Johnson, Steven, Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life; BS 1; Audible link.
Kandel, Eric, In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind; BS 3.
Kenneally, Christine, The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language; BS 30.
Koch, Christof, The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach; BS 22; Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist; BS 84; The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed; BS 163.
Kraus, Nina, Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World; BS 192.
Lau, Hakwan, In Consciousness we Trust: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Subjective Experience; BS 196.
LeDoux, Joseph, The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains; BS 161.
Legrenzi, Paolo, and Umilta, Carlo, Neuromania: On the Limits of Brainscience; BS 109.
Lende, Daniel H., and Downey, Greg, The Encultured Brain: An Introduction to Neuroanthropology, BS 97.
Lewis, Penny, The Secret World of Sleep: The Surprising Science of the Mind at Rest, BS 107.
Lilienfeld, Scott, 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior; BS 70.
Lynch, Gary, Big Brain: The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence; BS 48.
Mackay, Donald G, Remembering: What 50 Years of Research with Famous Amnesia Patient H.M. Can Teach Us about Memory and How It Works; BS 157.
Macknik, Stephen, and, Martinez-Conde, Susana, Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions; BS 72; Audible link.
Macrine, Sheila, Movement Matters: How Embodied Cognition Informs Teaching and Learning; BS 200.
Medina, John, Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School; BS 37; Audible link; Brain Rules for Aging Well: 10 Principles for Staying Healthy, Vital, and Sharp; BS 138; Audible link.
Merzenich, Michael, Soft-Wired: How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Can Change Your Life; BS 105.
Mesquita, Batja, Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions; BS 199.
Metzinger, Thomas, The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self; BS 212; Audible link.
Montague, Read, Why Choose This Book?: How We Make Decisions; BS 15.
Mitchell, Kevin J, Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are; BS 159. Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will; BS 213.
Murphy, Nancey, and, Brown, Warren, Did My Neurons Make Me Do It?: Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsiblity and Free Will; BS 53; BS 62.
Nassim, Charlotte, Lessons from the Lobster: Eve Marder's Work in Neuroscience; BS 147.
Nicholls, John, Martin, A., Wallace, Bruce, and, Fuchs, Paul, From Neuron to Brain: A Cellular and Molecular Approach to the Function of the Nervous System; BS 8.
Nicolelis, Miguel, Beyond Boundaries: The New Neuroscience of Connecting Brains with Machines--and How It Will Change Our Lives; BS 78; BS 79; Audible link.
Nieder, Andreas, A Brain for Numbers: The Biology of the Number Instinct; BS 170.
Noe, Alva, Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness; BS 58; Audible link.
Northoff, Georg, The Spontaneous Brain: From the Mind–Body to the World–Brain Problem; BS 174.
O’Connor, Mary-Frances, The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss; BS 194.
Panksepp, Jaak, Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions; BS 65; The Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotion; BS 91.
Pessoa, Luiz, The Cognitive-Emotional Brain: From Interactions to Integration; BS 106; The Entangled Brain: How Perception, Cognition, and Emotion Are Woven Together; BS 209.
Pfeifer, Rolf, How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence; BS 25.
Poldrack, Russell, The New Mind Readers: What Neuroimaging Can and Cannot Reveal about Our Thoughts; BS 156.
Quian Quiroga, Rodrigo, The Forgetting Machine: Memory, Perception, and the "Jennifer Aniston Neuron."; BS 141; Audible link.
Ratey, John, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain; BS 111; Audible link; and, Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder From Childhood Through Adulthood; BS 45; Audible link.
Rizzolatti, Giacomo, and, Sinigaglia, Corrado, Mirrors in the Brain: How Our Minds Share Actions, Emotions, and Experience; BS 35.
Rose, Nikolas, and Abi-Rached, Joelle, Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind; BS 109.
Rose, Steven, The Future of the Brain: The Promise and Perils of Tomorrow's Neuroscience; BS 9.
Satel, Sally, and Lilienfeld, Scott, Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience; BS 109.
Seidenberg, Mark, Language at the Speed of Sight: How We Read, Why So Many Can't, And What Can Be Done About It; BS 136.
Seth, Anil, Being You: A New Science of Consciousness; BS 188
Seung, Sebastian, Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are, BS 85; Audible link.
Shapiro, Lawrence, Embodied Cognition (New Problems of Philosophy); BS 73.
Siegel, Daniel, The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being; BS 44; Audible link.
Solms, Mark, The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Origins of Consciousness; BS 184.
Sporns, Olaf, Networks of the Brain; BS 74; and Discovering the Human Connectome, BS 103.
Squire, Larry, and, Kandel, Eric, Memory: From Mind to Molecules; BS 12.
Sterling, Peter, What Is Health? Allostasis and the Evolution of Human Design; BS 178.
Striedter, Georg, Principles of Brain Evolution; BS 47.
Tallis, Raymond, Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis, and the Misrepresentation of Mankind; BS 109.
Tavris, Carol, Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts; BS 175.
Thompson, Evan, Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind; BS 89. Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy; BS 115.
Uttal, Willliam, Mind and Brain: A Critical Appraisal of Cognitive Neuroscience; BS 83.
van der Linden, Sanders, Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity; BS 208.
Wolf, Maryanne, Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain; BS 24; BS 29; Audible link. Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century; BS 145.
