Neuroscience

  • Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain

    A short, readable collection of essays about how our brains evolved, how they work, and how they work together with other people's brains.

  • Being You: A New Science of Consciousness

    An accessible exploration of how the brain creates our experience of the world and of ourselves.

  • How we learn as children

    Like a panda copying his keepers' grimace, we repeat defences learned in childhood, but what was learned can change.

  • We see what we expect

    Our brains see what they expect, in optical illusions and in our partners. Generosity is the antidote.