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Cognitive Science Books
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Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 148 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 606,272 ratings — published 2011
How the Mind Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.99 — 21,301 ratings — published 1997
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 53,470 ratings — published 1979
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,701 ratings — published 1994
Consciousness Explained (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.90 — 8,758 ratings — published 1991
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.05 — 251,390 ratings — published 1985
The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,310 ratings — published 1991
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,103 ratings — published 1980
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 25,562 ratings — published 2002
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.95 — 10,160 ratings — published 1994
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 34,971 ratings — published 2011
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 627,973 ratings — published 2005
The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,996 ratings — published 1981
I Am a Strange Loop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,840 ratings — published 2007
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 132,508 ratings — published 2008
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,268 ratings — published 2007
The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.20 — 40,903 ratings — published 2007
The Society of Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,379 ratings — published 1985
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,723 ratings — published 2007
Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,292 ratings — published 1998
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 33,467 ratings — published 2017
On Intelligence (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,990 ratings — published 2004
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.27 — 20,816 ratings — published 1998
Mindware: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.82 — 359 ratings — published 2000
The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,338 ratings — published 2009
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.89 — 33,564 ratings — published 2010
Mind: Introduction to Cognitive Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.66 — 254 ratings — published 1996
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 13,629 ratings — published 2017
Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,008 ratings — published 2014
Cognitive Science: An Introduction to the Science of the Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 168 ratings — published 2010
Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension (Philosophy of Mind)
by (shelved 31 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.89 — 323 ratings — published 2008
Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,279 ratings — published 2010
This Is Your Brain on Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.89 — 68,735 ratings — published 2006
How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 7,848 ratings — published 2012
The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 10,971 ratings — published 2010
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 35,704 ratings — published 2016
Being You: A New Science of Consciousness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,257 ratings — published 2020
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,290 ratings — published 2009
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.88 — 29,065 ratings — published 2016
The Emperor's New Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,736 ratings — published 1989
Where Mathematics Come From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 398 ratings — published 2000
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.78 — 4,406 ratings — published 2013
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 68,137 ratings — published 2012
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 90,463 ratings — published 1990
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,122 ratings — published 1987
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 8,409 ratings — published 2007
Hallucinations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 3.93 — 25,695 ratings — published 2012
The Brain: The Story of You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.25 — 23,373 ratings — published 2015
An Anthropologist on Mars (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 24,132 ratings — published 1995
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as cognitive-science)
avg rating 4.27 — 86,353 ratings — published 2018
“People are Exponential Moving Averages (EMAs) of their actions [and previous selves], with a varying number of data points.
You(Today) = Acts(Today)*a + You(Yesterday)*b
You are an expanding fuzzy network!”
― Fuzzy on the Dark Side: Approximate Thinking, and How the Mists of Creativity and Progress Can Become a Prison of Illusion
You(Today) = Acts(Today)*a + You(Yesterday)*b
You are an expanding fuzzy network!”
― Fuzzy on the Dark Side: Approximate Thinking, and How the Mists of Creativity and Progress Can Become a Prison of Illusion
“Wild cognition, it seems, has (literally) no time for the filing cabinet.”
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