Full name: Into the Silent Land: Travels in Neuropsychology

Author: Paul Broks Year: 2003 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Psychology, Science, Non Fiction, Philosophy Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780802141286 0802141285

Into the Silent Land is a collection of case studies and short tutorials on neuropsychology, which is the science of analyzing the relationship between personality, performance, and the anatomical and physiological structure of the brain. Broks fuses classic cases of neuropsychology with the his own case studies, philosophical debate, and thought provoking riffs and meditations on the nature of neurological impairments and dysfunctions. Similar books: The Man with a Shattered World by Aleksandr R. Luria A Mind of Its Own by Cordelia Fine The Elephant in the Brain by Kevin Simler The River of Consciousness by Oliver Sacks The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks The Self Illusion by Bruce Hood The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks The Man Who Tasted Shapes by Richard E. Cytowic What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite by David DiSalvo Subliminal by Leonard Mlodinow Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite by Robert Kurzban The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan Quirk by Hannah Holmes The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe by Steven Novella Vehicles by Valentino Braitenberg Emergence by Steven Johnson The Web of Life by Fritjof Capra