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Minds, Brains, and Neurons

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, February 2022

Cosmologies in the Making: A Generative Approach to Cultural Variation in Inner New Guinea (Barth)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, December 2021

Enlightenment 2.0: Restoring Sanity to Our Politics, Our Economy, and Our Lives (Heath)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2021

Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture (Showalter)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2020

Tradition as Truth and Communication: A Cognitive Description of Traditional Discourse (Boyer)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2020

The Gist of Reading (Elfenbein)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2019

The Enigma of Reason (Mercier and Sperber)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2019

The Psychoanalytic Movement: The Cunning of Unreason (Gellner)

The Varieties of Religious Experience (James)

Major depression, qu'est-ce que c'est?

An Ad Hominid Argument for Animism

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, February 2018

Measurement in Psychology: A Critical History of a Methodological Concept (Michell)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2018

The Confidence Game: And Why We Fall for It... Every Time (Konnikova)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2017

Neuromania: On the Limits of Brain Science (Legrenzi and Umiltà)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2016

The Organisation of Mind (Shallice and Cooper)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2015

Statistical Analysis of fMRI Data (Ashby)

Unifying the Mind: Cognitive Representations as Graphical Models (Danks)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, February 2015

Handbook of Functional MRI Data Analysis (Poldrack, Mumford and Nichols)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2015

Foundational Issues in Human Brain Mapping (Hanson and Bunzl, eds.)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, December 2014

Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature (Godfrey-Smith)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, November 2014

Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology (Richardson)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2014

How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching (Ambrose et al.)

Why? (Tilly)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, October 2012

Odd Perceptions (Gregory)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, September 2012

Cognitive Variations: Reflections on the Unity and Diversty of the Human Mind (Lloyd)

Undergraduate Capacity Control

Sparsity as Sorcery (Next Two Weeks at the Statistics Seminar)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, February 2012

Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter (Johnson)

"I was of three minds, / Like a tree / In which there are three blackbirds"

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2011

Group Problem Solving (Laughlin)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2011

The Integrative Action of the Nervous System (Sherrington)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2011

An Empirically-based Microeconomics (Simon)

Lyric Poetry in Pluto's Republic

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, December 2010

Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error (Schulz)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, November 2010

Where Good Idea Come From (Johnson)

From Neuropsychology to Mental Structure (Shallice)

Links, Pleading to be Dumped

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, June 2010

The Clockwork Muse: The Predictability of Artistic Change (Martindale)

In which Dunning-Krueger meets Slutsky-Yule, and they make music together

One Must Imagine Liberman Happy

Upcoming Gigs: Bristol

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, December 2009

Cognitive Development: Its Social and Cultural Foundations (Luria)

Output Summary

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, November 2009

Mind in Society: Development of Higher Psychological Processes (Vygotsky)

In re John Holland

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, June 2009

Exploratory Analysis and Data Modeling in Functional Neuroimaging

Next Week at the Statistics Seminar: Bayes, Bayes, Baked Beans, Sausage and Bayes

Assorted Link Roundup, May 2008

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2008

The Mathematician's Brain: A Personal Tour Through the Essentials of Mathematics and Some of the Great Minds Behind Them (Ruelle)

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2008

Measuring the Mind: Conceptual Issues in Contemporary Psychometrics (Borsboom)

New Year's Eve Self-Knowledge Blogging

Assorted Linkage: Halloween Edition

g, a Statistical Myth

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2007

The Authoritarians (Altemeyer)

The Cult of Personality: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves (Murphy Paul)

Keeping the Squid Giant Axon Real (Video Clips of the Old School Issue of Science Geek Edition of Saturday Squid Blogging)

The Cartesian Movie Theater

A. R. Luria: The Neuropsychology of Praxis

Do You Feel Lucky, Punk?

It's Not Who You Know, It's What You Do

Critical Sensation

The Sharks of DARPA

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, June 2006 Neural Engineering: Computation, Representation, and Dynamics in Neurobiological Systems (Eliasmith and Anderson)

The Parallelogram Paw Issue of Science Geek Edition

Neuropharmacological Foundations of the Public Sphere

SUMO versus the Dendritic Claws (Sunday Sibling Blogging)

Friday Cat Blogging ("Hear, Kitty!" Issue of Science Geek Edition)

Almond Madelines

Friday Cat Blogging (Son et Lumière Issue of Science Geek Edition)

Continuing the Flow of Brainy Material

The Little Grey Cells Get Their Act Together

Let Me Be Among the First to Welcome Our New Orbital Cybernetic Zombie Overlords!

Je ne regrette rien

Towards the Stainless Steel Rat

April Fool's Sloth

This Is Your Brain on Statistical Complexity (This Week at the Complex Systems Colloquium)

Friday Cat Blogging (Keeping an Eye on the Mouse Issue of Science Geek Edition)

Emile, or, "We don't need no education, we don't need no thought control"

Friday Cat Blogging (It Always Pays to Read the Annals of Improbable Research Carefully Issue of Science Geek Edition)

There Are 52 Significant Differences Between Tom Cruise and John Travolta

More Assorted Reading

Christof Koch, Zombie-Monger

Why So Slow?

Intermittent Finds in Complex Systems and Stuff, No. 1

The free development of each is the condition of the war of all against all

The Literary Theory of a Midwestern Maître à Penser

Better Willing Through Chemistry, or, More Reasons the Staff of the National Review Should Be Squirming in Front of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission Right Now

Dumb Survey Tricks, or, Time to Restock the Adaptive Toolbox