my mind on books

new book – ‘The Multitasking Mind’

mymindonbooks — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:21:56 +0000

The Multitasking Mind by Dario D. Salvucci and Niels A. Taatgen (Oxford University Press, USA, 2010) (link for amazon.co.uk) Product description from the publisher: Multitasking is all around us: the office worker interrupted by a phone call, the teenager texting while driving, the salesperson chatting while entering an order. When multitasking, the mind juggles all [...]

new book – ‘Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages’

mymindonbooks — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:26:54 +0000

Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages by Guy Deutscher (Metropolitan Books, 2010) (link for amazon.co.uk) Product description from the publisher: A masterpiece of linguistics scholarship, at once erudite and entertaining, confronts the thorny question of how—and whether—culture shapes language and language, culture Linguistics has long shied away from claiming [...]

‘Mapping the Mind’ – revised & updated

mymindonbooks — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 06:49:44 +0000

A revised and updated edition of Mapping the Mind by Rita Carter has been issued by the University of California Press. (by Phoenix in the UK) Product description from the publisher: Today a brain scan reveals our thoughts and moods as clearly as an X-ray reveals our bones. We can actually observe a person’s brain [...]

recent philosophy book – ‘Three Questions We Never Stop Asking’

mymindonbooks — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:44:06 +0000

Three Questions We Never Stop Asking by Michael Kellogg (Prometheus Books, 2010) (link for UK) Product description from the publisher: What can I know? What may I hope? What ought I to do? These are three questions that—however much we immerse ourselves in the whirl and concerns of everyday life—we cannot, in the end, escape. [...]

social perception in ‘God Soul Mind Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Reflections on the Spirit World’

mymindonbooks — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:35:36 +0000

Despite the title, God Soul Mind Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Reflections on the Spirit World (link for amazon.co.uk) is not primarily about religion or the spirit world from a neuroscientific perspective. Instead, gods and spirits figure as examples of a more general process of social perception that is the real focus of the work. In a [...]