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Ranked #39 in Educational Psychology, Ranked #43 in Neuroscience — see more rankings.
Mapping the Mind charts the way human... more
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb AuthorI started my interest in neurobiology in December 1998 after reading a discussion by Rita Carter in the FT showing that rational behavior under uncertainty and rational decision making can come from a defect in the amygdala. Since then I've had five years of reading more technical material (Gazzaniga et al is perhaps the most complete reference on cognitive neuroscience) and thought that I transcended this book. But it was not so. I picked up this book again last weekend and was both astonished at a) the ease of reading , b) the clarity of the text and c) the breadth of the approach! I was... (Source)
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Mapping the Mind is ranked in the following categories:
- #55 in Brain
- #77 in Cognitive Psychology
- #56 in Human Brain
- #94 in Neurology