Our brainiest books
July 21, 2022
Celebrating World Brain Day with books and journals on cognitive science and the mind.
Category: Neuroscience
What to read for Society for Neuroscience 2021
November 5, 2021
A selection of books and journals for the brain-minded.
A reading list for World Brain Day
July 22, 2021
Books and journals covering neuroscience, cognitive sciences, consciousness, and more.
What We Know about Cannabis, on the Eve of Marijuana Legalization
April 28, 2017
Even as recently as a decade ago, it was difficult to predict how quickly the case for marijuana legalization would grow into a movement throughout much of the West.
Brain Awareness Week: Evolution of Design at The MIT Press
March 16, 2017
In honor of Brain Awareness Week, we revisit “The Brain Through the Decades, or Evolution of Design at The MIT Press” video, which illustrates design trends at the Press and showcases some of our most memorable, creative, and influential covers featuring this MIT Press-iconic image.
Brain Awareness Week: Neuroplasticity
March 15, 2017
Our latest post for Brain Awareness Week is an excerpt from Neuroplasticity by Mo Costandi. This book, part of the Essential Knowledge series, is the real story of how our brains and nervous systems change throughout our lifetimes—with or without “brain training.”
Brain Awareness Week: James Austin’s Achievement
March 13, 2017
Welcome to Brain Awareness Week! We’re happy to be part of the Dana Foundation’s global campaign to increase public awareness of the progress and benefits of brain research. Brain research is something that we know about, having published dozens of books in cognitive science, neuroscience, and related disciplines that all aim to uncover just how the human brain works so miraculously. Over the next week we’ll have several posts relating to different aspects of our books in this area. To start, here’s a synoptic view of the work of one of our longest-tenured authors: Jim Austin.
A Bird’s-Eye View of Human Language and Evolution
January 5, 2017
It’s National Bird Day! We are celebrating with a passage by Robert Berwick and Noam Chomsky from Birdsong, Speech, and Language, which considers the cognitive and neural similarities between birdsong and human speech and language.
Spotlight on Science: Rosa Arriaga
February 24, 2016
We are inundated with stimuli every day. How do our brains make sense of all the data flooding our senses? How do we recognize these stimuli for sounds or objects? For this month’s Spotlight on Science Q&A, we spoke with Rosa I. Arriaga (Georgia Institute of Technology), one of the authors of “Visual Categorization with Random Projection.”