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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)
Making Memories
‘Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets’ by Luke Dittrich
Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
by Luke Dittrich
August 17, 2017 issue
The Secret of Good Taste
Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters
by Gordon M. Shepherd
June 21, 2012 issue
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
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
Mind-Reading
The Oxford Companion to the Mind
edited by Richard L. Gregory, with the assistance of O.L. Zangwill
September 29, 1988 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)
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)
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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