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Vilayanur Ramachandran • Le cerveau fait de l'esprit : Enquête sur les neurones miroirs (Quai des Sciences) (French Edition)
In one study of brain-damaged patients by University of Iowa neurologist Steven Anderson, pathological collectors did not differ from a group of noncollectors (who had been assessed for the purposes of comparison) on a range of normal abilities, but all the extreme collectors had suffered damage to the mesial prefrontal areas of the brain. This reg
... See moreSam Gosling • Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You
We are not cognitive computers, we are feeling machines.
Anil Seth • Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
Mind has the characteristics of a process more than of a thing;
Iain McGilchrist • The Master and His Emissary
also read Descartes’ Error, by the neuroscientist Antonio Damasio.22 Damasio had noticed an unusual pattern of symptoms in patients who had suffered brain damage to a specific part of the brain—the ventromedial (i.e., bottom-middle) prefrontal cortex (abbreviated vmPFC; it’s the region just behind and above the bridge of the nose). Their emotionali
... See moreJonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
This ability to recognize diversity and organize it into categories is a biological reality that is absolutely essential to the organized human mind.
Daniel Levitin • The Organized Mind
Neuroscientists now think of the brain as an ever-changing ecosystem crackling with electrochemical energy from which our thoughts, emotions, and intentions arise, rather than a collection of blinking neural islands.