One of these is a power drill by Chris Baraniuk in NewScientist 270419
AI uses one method to do object recognition; humans use two. Everyone is familiar with the AI...
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Category: NEUROSCIENCE
Mirroring people by Marco Iacoboni 2008/9
Embedding mirror neurons firmly in our social interactions. Iacoboni has provided a thoroughgoing...
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Cognition, Brain, and Consciousness by B J Baars and N M Gage 2010
An immense and valuable introduction to neuroscience. At around 600 large pages with plenty of...
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Winnicott by Adam Phillips 1988/2007
Self development occurs post-natally; we are not born with it. A sympathetic and revealing account...
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Consciousness and the brain by Stanislas Dehaene 2014
A neuronal network take on the global workspace theory of consciousness. This is a great book...
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How pleasure works by Paul Bloom 2010
What we like and why we like it. Bloom’s book ostensibly has two purposes. The main one in...
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The strange order of things by Antonio Damasio 2018
Homeostasis is the key to consciousness. In his latest book, Damasio strongly reaffirms the theory...
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Stochastic synaptic plasticity underlying compulsion in a model of addiction by Vincent Pascoli et al in Nature 20 December 2018
The stochastic nature of neuronal networks in decision making. An intriguing experiment shows that...
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Affect regulation and the origin of the self by Allan N. Schore 1994/2016
Self regulation emerges during the first 18 months of life. Too many books on the topic of...
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The hippocampus is crucial for forming non-hippocampal long-term memory during sleep by Anuck Sawangjit et al in Nature 6 December 2018
Hippocampus needed for consolidation of novel-object memories. Sawangjit et al start with the...
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‘Mini brains’ show human-like activity by Sara Reardon in Nature 22 November 2018
Cortical tissue in a Petri dish makes waves. Scientists have cultured stem cells to form clumps of...
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The plant whisperer by Joshua Howgego in NewScientist 24 November 2018
Plants can learn and memorise. Evolutionary ecologist, Monica Gagliano, has managed to demonstrate...
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Beyond fast and slow by Madeleine Finlay in NewScientist 17 November 2018
Critiquing Kahneman’s Thinking, fast and slow. Daniel Kahneman popularised the idea that...
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The mind within the brain by A. David Redish 2013
Decision making partly explained. Redish’s book tackles the very important area of decision making...
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Complexity: a very short introduction by John H Holland 2014
A full theory of complex adaptive systems still eludes us. Many theories of consciousness state...
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Westworld (s1) and Humans (s3)
Fancy coding generates consciousness. It is interesting watching Westworld and Humans...
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Thoughts laid bare by Timothy Revell in NewScientist 29 September 2018
Could AI help us discover where consciousness lies in the brain? Some of the world’s big...
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The attentional requirements of consciousness by MA Cohen et al in Trends in Cognitive Sciences August 2012
Attention needed for consciousness, not vice versa. Is attention synonymous with consciousness?...
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I want to make a chemical brain by Roman Hooper in NewScientist 15 September 2018
Consciousness in silico will not work. So says the chemist, Lee Cronin. He believes that the...
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The consciousness instinct by Michael Gazzaniga 2018
Consciousness is what separates life from non-life. Gazzaniga commences with a wonderful summary...
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