Eliezer J. Sternberg

This book does a great job of talking about complex neuroscience topics and presenting them in a useful and easy to grasp way. The focus on selecting various interesting case studies and then elucidating the various factors involved keeps it from getting too dry, there's always an interesting narrative to keep reading for and a context to place new ideas into.

Other than that, the explanations of how the sense of self is protected by all these unconscious factors helps make sense of a lot of strange human actions. Great read for people who like learning about how brains work.… (meer)

Investigations of biological/physical basis for things like what blind people see when they dream, why imagination can help you be a better athlete (etc.), why schizophrenics hear voices (they have a difficulty with recognizing their own voices that has an apparent genetic basis; we are all actually subvocalizing our thoughts, but schizophrenics can hear those subvocalizations without recognizing their source, and, searching for an understandable explanation, conclude that someone else is talking to them), and why people believe in alien abductions (sleep paralysis is involved). Entertaining.… (meer)