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An Awesome List of Cognitive Science Resources
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Book Recommendations? #8

Closed abi-aryan closed 5 years ago

abi-aryan commented 6 years ago

What do you think are some of the most excellent reading recommendations on the subject?

pragyakale commented 6 years ago

Should books with interesting case studies which let us learn about psychology and neuroscience be added?

abi-aryan commented 6 years ago

Could you list a few examples maybe?

pragyakale commented 6 years ago

Books like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind

abi-aryan commented 6 years ago

Oh, yeah I've heard good things about both of them. They can go under Fiction in Good Reads. Please make a PR.

sreshu commented 6 years ago

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40102.Blink?ac=1&from_search=true

abi-aryan commented 6 years ago

@reshusinghhh I am not too sure if I would keep Blink in there. Gladwell has a reputation for misquoting case studies often. Something he did with his book Outliers as well and 10,000 hours to success. I only partially read Blink a couple of years ago and while his take is interesting I am afraid, it's not scientifically sound.

Let's find some others to add in there.

probablyangg commented 6 years ago

@abi-aryan I'm confused, why is the book "Phantoms in the Brain" by VS Ramachandran under Fiction?

abi-aryan commented 6 years ago

As my reading of the book goes @angelagilhotra , the author of "Phantoms in the Brain" takes us through the stories of 13 of his patients - surely ain't a fiction but not a compulsory reading either - probably better placed among case studies. Thanks for noticing though and very sorry for the late response.

abi-aryan commented 5 years ago

Classify these books into sub-categories-

  1. Gibson, James J: An Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
  2. Goldberg, Elkhonon: The New Executive Brain
  3. Gray, Jeffrey and Neil McNaughton: The Neuropsychology of Anxiety
  4. LeDoux, Joseph: The Emotional Brain
  5. Panksepp, Jaak: Affective Neuroscience
  6. Sacks, Oliver: The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat
  7. Sacks, Oliver: Awakenings
  8. Sacks, Oliver: An Anthropologist on Mars
  9. Swanson, Larry: Brain Architecture: Understanding the Basic Plan