Full name: Making up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World

Author: Chris Frith Year: 2007 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Psychology, Science, Non Fiction, Philosophy Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781405160223 1405160225

Written by one of the world's leading neuroscientists, Making Up the Mind is the first accessible account of experimental studies showing how the brain creates our mental world. Uses evidence from brain imaging, psychological experiments and studies of patients to explore the relationship between the mind and the brain Demonstrates that our knowledge of both the mental and physical comes to us through models created by our brain Shows how the brain makes communication of ideas from one mind to another possible Similar books: Self Comes to Mind by Antonio Damasio Mapping the Mind by Rita Carter The Accidental Mind by David J. Linden Human by Michael S. Gazzaniga The Mind and the Brain by Jeffrey M. Schwartz Synaptic Self by Joseph Ledoux Idiot Brain by Dean Burnett Phantoms in the Brain by V. S. Ramachandran NeuroLogic by Eliezer Sternberg An Alchemy of Mind by Diane Ackerman Incognito by David Eagleman Connectome by Sebastian Seung The Tell-Tale Brain by V. S. Ramachandran The New Brain by Richard Restak Kluge by Gary Marcus The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe by Steven Novella Vehicles by Valentino Braitenberg