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Israel Rosenfield

Israel Rosenfield is the author, with Edward Ziff, of DNA: A Graphic Guide to the Molecule That Shook the World. He is preparing an English translation of Plaisir de jouer, plaisir de penser by Catherine Temerson and Charles Rosen. (June 2018)

How the Mind Works: Revelations

The Physiology of Truth: Neuroscience and Human Knowledge

by Jean-Pierre Changeux, translated from the French by M.B. DeBevoise

Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors: From Molecular Biology to Cognition

by Jean-Pierre Changeux and Stuart J. Edelstein

Conversations on Mind, Matter, and Mathematics

by Jean-Pierre Changeux and Alain Connes, translated from the French by M.B. DeBevoise

What Makes Us Think? A Neuroscientist and a Philosopher Argue about Ethics, Human Nature, and the Brain

by Jean-Pierre Changeux and Paul Ricoeur, translated from the French by M.B. DeBevoise

Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind

by V.S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee, with a foreword by Oliver Sacks

Mirrors in the Brain: How Our Minds Share Actions and and Emotions

by Giacomo Rizzolatti and Corrado Sinigaglia, translated from the Italian by Frances Anderson

A Universe of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination

by Gerald M. Edelman and Giulio Tononi

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June 26, 2008 issue

Evolving Evolution

From DNA to Diversity: Molecular Genetics and the Evolution of Animal Design

by Sean B. Carroll, Jennifer K. Grenier, and Scott D. Weatherbee

Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom

by Sean B. Carroll

The Plausibility of Life:Resolving Darwin's Dilemma

by Marc W. Kirschner and John C. Gerhart

May 11, 2006 issue

A New Vision of Vision

Inner Vision: An Exploration of Art and the Brain

by Semir Zeki

Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See

by Donald D. Hoffman

September 21, 2000 issue

Neural Darwinism: A New Approach to Memory and Perception

"Through a Computer Darkly: Group Selection and Higher Brain Function" 36, No. 1 (October 1982)

by Gerald M. Edelman. in Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol.

"Neural Darwinism: Population Thinking and Higher Brain Function"

by Gerald M. Edelman and in How We Know, ed. Michael Shafto

"Group Selection and Phasic Reentrant Signaling: A Theory of Higher Brain Function"

by Gerald M. Edelman and in The Mindful Brain ed. G.M. Edelman and V.B. Mountcastle

"Group Selection as the Basis for Higher Brain Function" ed.

by Gerald M. Edelman and in The Organization of the Cerebral Cortex F.O. Schmitt et al.

"Neuronal Group Selection in the Cerebral Cortex"

by Gerald M. Edelman and Leif H. Finkel and in Dynamic Aspects of Neocortical Function ed. G.M. Edelman and W.E. Gall and W.M. Cowan

"Cell Adhesion Molecules"

by Gerald M. Edelman. in Science, Vol. 219, (February 4, 1983)

"Expression of Cell Adhesion Molecules During Embryogenesis and Regeneration"

by Gerald M. Edelman. in Experimental Cell Research 161 (1984)

"Interaction of Synaptic Modification Rules Within Populations of Neurons" (February 1985)

by Leif H. Finkel and Gerald M. Edelman. in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science Vol. 82

"Selective Networks and Recognition Automata"

by George N. Reeke Jr. and Gerald M. Edelman. in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (1985)

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October 9, 1986 issue

A Hero of the Brain

Selected Papers on Language and the Brain

by Norman Geschwind

Cerebral Dominance: The Biological Foundations

edited by Norman Geschwind, edited by Albert M. Galaburda

Dyslexia: Current Status and Future Directions

edited by Frank Hopkins Duffy, edited by Norman Geschwind

November 21, 1985 issue

The New Brain

The Broken Brain: The Biological Revolution in Psychiatry

by Nancy C. Andreasen MD, Ph.D.

Brain, Mind, and Behavior

by Floyd E. Bloom and Arlyne Lazerson and Laura Hofstadter

The Amazing Brain

by Robert Ornstein and Richard F. Thompson, illustrated by David Macaulay

The Brain

by Richard M. Restak MD

The Brain

a documentary series produced by WNET/Thirteen (New York)

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March 14, 1985 issue

Seeing Through the Brain

Vision: A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information

by David Marr

October 11, 1984 issue

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