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💭 How Memory Works

Explorations of the science and mystery of human memory — its fragility, its reconstructive nature, and the surprising ways it shapes identity and perception.
Pieces of Light
by Charles Fernyhough • 2012
Your memories aren't recordings; they're stories rebuilt fresh each time, and the edit never ends.
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468
🧠 Autobiographical Memory🧩 Reconstructive Memory🪞 False Memories📖 Narrative Identity👃 Sensory Memory
Pieces of Light Summary
Pieces of Light 93%
Your memories aren't recordings; they're stories rebuilt fresh each time, and the edit never ends.
by Charles Fernyhough 2012
3.53
468 ratings
🧠 Autobiographical Memory🧩 Reconstructive Memory🪞 False Memories📖 Narrative Identity👃 Sensory Memory
Forgetting
by Scott A. Small • 2021
Forgetting is not a glitch: it is biology's tool for intelligence, resilience, and imagination.
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554
🧠 Memory And Forgetting🧬 Cognitive Neuroscience❤️‍🩹 Emotional Regulation🔍 Cognitive Biases🛌 Sleep And Memory
Forgetting Summary
Forgetting 92%
Forgetting is not a glitch: it is biology's tool for intelligence, resilience, and imagination.
by Scott A. Small 2021
3.76
554 ratings
🧠 Memory And Forgetting🧬 Cognitive Neuroscience❤️‍🩹 Emotional Regulation🔍 Cognitive Biases🛌 Sleep And Memory
Your Memory
by Alan Baddeley • 1982
Memory is several systems, not one. Each forgets differently, and the architecture predicts when.
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271
🧠 Cognitive Psychology🔬 Memory Science🧩 Memory Systems⚙️ Working Memory🏰 Mnemonic Techniques
Your Memory Summary
Your Memory 92%
Memory is several systems, not one. Each forgets differently, and the architecture predicts when.
by Alan Baddeley 1982
3.77
271 ratings
🧠 Cognitive Psychology🔬 Memory Science🧩 Memory Systems⚙️ Working Memory🏰 Mnemonic Techniques
Why We Remember
by Charan Ranganath • 2024
Your memory was never built for accuracy. It was built for what comes next.
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3k+
🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience📚 Learning Science🧬 Evolutionary Psychology🪞 Memory And Identity🔮 Predictive Processing
Why We Remember Summary
Why We Remember 92%
Your memory was never built for accuracy. It was built for what comes next.
by Charan Ranganath 2024
3.91
3k+ ratings
🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience📚 Learning Science🧬 Evolutionary Psychology🪞 Memory And Identity🔮 Predictive Processing
How to Change a Memory
by Steve Ramirez • 2025
Memory can be edited with light. The pioneer explains why rewriting your past is inevitable.
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54
🧠 Memory Science🎭 False Memories💔 Memory And Trauma🔄 Neuroplasticity👤 Identity And Memory
How to Change a Memory Summary
How to Change a Memory 92%
Memory can be edited with light. The pioneer explains why rewriting your past is inevitable.
by Steve Ramirez 2025
4.17
54 ratings
🧠 Memory Science🎭 False Memories💔 Memory And Trauma🔄 Neuroplasticity👤 Identity And Memory
The Memory Illusion
by Julia Shaw • 2016
You can be led to remember a crime you never committed; the method is just conversation.
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2k+
🔍 False Memories🧠 Reconstructive Memory⚖️ Eyewitness Testimony👥 Social Memory📱 Digital Amnesia
The Memory Illusion Summary
The Memory Illusion 92%
You can be led to remember a crime you never committed; the method is just conversation.
by Julia Shaw 2016
3.94
2k+ ratings
🔍 False Memories🧠 Reconstructive Memory⚖️ Eyewitness Testimony👥 Social Memory📱 Digital Amnesia
The Seven Sins Of Memory Updated Edition
by Daniel L. Schacter • 2001
Memory's worst habits are not bugs but features, and the seven failures that prove it.
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2k+
🧠 Cognitive Psychology🔬 Memory Science📉 Forgetting❓ Memory Biases💭 False Memories
The Seven Sins Of Memory Updated Edition Summary
The Seven Sins Of Memory Updated Edition 91%
Memory's worst habits are not bugs but features, and the seven failures that prove it.
by Daniel L. Schacter 2001
3.88
2k+ ratings
🧠 Cognitive Psychology🔬 Memory Science📉 Forgetting❓ Memory Biases💭 False Memories
Memory
by Jonathan K. Foster • 2008
What you remember is never what happened. The science of how memory rebuilds the past.
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823
🧠 Cognitive Psychology🗂️ Memory Systems🧩 Reconstructive Memory🏰 Mnemonic Techniques👁️ Eyewitness Testimony
Memory Summary
Memory 91%
What you remember is never what happened. The science of how memory rebuilds the past.
by Jonathan K. Foster 2008
3.54
823 ratings
🧠 Cognitive Psychology🗂️ Memory Systems🧩 Reconstructive Memory🏰 Mnemonic Techniques👁️ Eyewitness Testimony
The Complete Guide to Memory
by Richard Restak • 2022
Memory isn't fixed. The neuroscience and techniques that can sharpen yours at any age.
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423
🧠 Memory Science🏛️ Mnemonic Techniques💪 Brain Health👁️ Attention And Focus🔄 Memory Distortion
The Complete Guide to Memory Summary
The Complete Guide to Memory 91%
Memory isn't fixed. The neuroscience and techniques that can sharpen yours at any age.
by Richard Restak 2022
3.67
423 ratings
🧠 Memory Science🏛️ Mnemonic Techniques💪 Brain Health👁️ Attention And Focus🔄 Memory Distortion
Moonwalking with Einstein
by Joshua Foer • 2011
A journalist with an average memory covers memory champions, then becomes U.S. champion in a year.
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95k+
🧠 Memory Improvement🏰 Memory Palaces🎯 Deliberate Practice📜 Ancient Memory Arts🏆 Expertise And Mastery
Moonwalking with Einstein Summary
Moonwalking with Einstein 91%
A journalist with an average memory covers memory champions, then becomes U.S. champion in a year.
by Joshua Foer 2011
3.88
95k+ ratings
🧠 Memory Improvement🏰 Memory Palaces🎯 Deliberate Practice📜 Ancient Memory Arts🏆 Expertise And Mastery
You Can Have an Amazing Memory
by Dominic O'Brien • 2011
Turn numbers into familiar faces and lists into journeys through your own home.
4.06
981
🧠 Memory Improvement🧩 Mnemonic Techniques🏛️ Method Of Loci🏋️ Brain Training⚡ Accelerated Learning
You Can Have an Amazing Memory Summary
You Can Have an Amazing Memory 91%
Turn numbers into familiar faces and lists into journeys through your own home.
by Dominic O'Brien 2011
4.06
981 ratings
🧠 Memory Improvement🧩 Mnemonic Techniques🏛️ Method Of Loci🏋️ Brain Training⚡ Accelerated Learning
Memory Craft
by Lynne Kelly • 2020
Your memory isn't failing. You just stopped using the techniques every ancient culture mastered.
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682
🧠 Memory Techniques🏰 Memory Palaces🪶 Indigenous Knowledge📜 Ancient Memory Arts🧓 Cognitive Aging
Memory Craft Summary
Memory Craft 90%
Your memory isn't failing. You just stopped using the techniques every ancient culture mastered.
by Lynne Kelly 2020
4.22
682 ratings
🧠 Memory Techniques🏰 Memory Palaces🪶 Indigenous Knowledge📜 Ancient Memory Arts🧓 Cognitive Aging
Remember
by Lisa Genova • 2021
How memory works, why forgetting is normal, and the habits that cut Alzheimer's risk by 50%.
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16k+
🧠 Memory Science🎯 Attention And Memory😴 Sleep And Brain Health🛡️ Alzheimer's Prevention🌀 Memory Distortion
Remember Summary
Remember 90%
How memory works, why forgetting is normal, and the habits that cut Alzheimer's risk by 50%.
by Lisa Genova 2021
4.18
16k+ ratings
🧠 Memory Science🎯 Attention And Memory😴 Sleep And Brain Health🛡️ Alzheimer's Prevention🌀 Memory Distortion
In Search of Memory
by Eric R. Kandel • 2006
How a sea slug's simple nervous system taught a Vienna refugee the universal recipe for memory.
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5k+
🧠 Synaptic Plasticity🔬 Molecular Biology😨 Learned Fear🗺️ Spatial Memory📜 History Of Neuroscience
In Search of Memory Summary
In Search of Memory 90%
How a sea slug's simple nervous system taught a Vienna refugee the universal recipe for memory.
by Eric R. Kandel 2006
4.14
5k+ ratings
🧠 Synaptic Plasticity🔬 Molecular Biology😨 Learned Fear🗺️ Spatial Memory📜 History Of Neuroscience
Remember It!
by Nelson Dellis • 2018
Picture it, place it, and make it weird: the memory athlete's formula for remembering anything.
3.96
833
🧠 Memory Improvement🔗 Mnemonic Techniques🏰 Memory Palaces🔑 Everyday Memory🏋️ Cognitive Training
Remember It! Summary
Remember It! 90%
Picture it, place it, and make it weird: the memory athlete's formula for remembering anything.
by Nelson Dellis 2018
3.96
833 ratings
🧠 Memory Improvement🔗 Mnemonic Techniques🏰 Memory Palaces🔑 Everyday Memory🏋️ Cognitive Training
Kevin Trudeau's Mega Memory
by Kevin Trudeau • 1997
Pictures stick. Words slide off. A thirty-minute daily method for remembering anything.
3.64
221
🧠 Memory Techniques👁️ Visual Memory⚡ Accelerated Learning🎯 Attention Training📂 Mental Filing Systems
Kevin Trudeau's Mega Memory Summary
Kevin Trudeau's Mega Memory 90%
Pictures stick. Words slide off. A thirty-minute daily method for remembering anything.
by Kevin Trudeau 1997
3.64
221 ratings
🧠 Memory Techniques👁️ Visual Memory⚡ Accelerated Learning🎯 Attention Training📂 Mental Filing Systems
The Memory Book
by Harry Lorayne • 1974
Three mental systems that turn names, numbers, and lists into vivid images you cannot forget.
3.97
3k+
🧠 Mnemonic Techniques📚 Learning Strategies🏷️ Name Recall🕰️ Classic Self-Help🧪 Cognitive Psychology
The Memory Book Summary
The Memory Book 90%
Three mental systems that turn names, numbers, and lists into vivid images you cannot forget.
by Harry Lorayne 1974
3.97
3k+ ratings
🧠 Mnemonic Techniques📚 Learning Strategies🏷️ Name Recall🕰️ Classic Self-Help🧪 Cognitive Psychology
Your Memory
by Kenneth L. Higbee • 1977
Your brain holds just seven things at once. The techniques that override that limit.
3.95
988
🧠 Memory Improvement🔬 Cognitive Psychology🏰 Mnemonics Techniques📚 Study Skills🔁 Spaced Repetition
Your Memory Summary
Your Memory 90%
Your brain holds just seven things at once. The techniques that override that limit.
by Kenneth L. Higbee 1977
3.95
988 ratings
🧠 Memory Improvement🔬 Cognitive Psychology🏰 Mnemonics Techniques📚 Study Skills🔁 Spaced Repetition
Mastering Memory
by Brad Zupp • 2019
Stop missing names, keys, and meetings: the techniques that make everyday memory stick.
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33
🧠 Memory Improvement📝 Mnemonics🎓 Learning Strategies🖼️ Mental Imagery🎯 Attention Management
Mastering Memory Summary
Mastering Memory 90%
Stop missing names, keys, and meetings: the techniques that make everyday memory stick.
by Brad Zupp 2019
3.76
33 ratings
🧠 Memory Improvement📝 Mnemonics🎓 Learning Strategies🖼️ Mental Imagery🎯 Attention Management
How to Develop a Perfect Memory
by Dominic O'Brien • 1993
Turn numbers into faces, lists into walks, and names into images that last a lifetime.
4.16
335
🧠 Memory Techniques🏋️ Mental Training🔗 Mnemonic Systems🗺️ Spatial Memory👁️ Visual Association
How to Develop a Perfect Memory Summary
How to Develop a Perfect Memory 90%
Turn numbers into faces, lists into walks, and names into images that last a lifetime.
by Dominic O'Brien 1993
4.16
335 ratings
🧠 Memory Techniques🏋️ Mental Training🔗 Mnemonic Systems🗺️ Spatial Memory👁️ Visual Association
Synaptic Self
by Joseph E. LeDoux • 2002
Your self is built from synapses: how memory, emotion, and consciousness circuits create identity.
4.00
5k+
🧠 Neuroscience Of Self🔄 Neuroplasticity📸 Memory And Identity😶 Unconscious Emotion💡 Consciousness Studies
Synaptic Self Summary
Synaptic Self 90%
Your self is built from synapses: how memory, emotion, and consciousness circuits create identity.
by Joseph E. LeDoux 2002
4.00
5k+ ratings
🧠 Neuroscience Of Self🔄 Neuroplasticity📸 Memory And Identity😶 Unconscious Emotion💡 Consciousness Studies
How to Pass Exams
by Dominic O'Brien • 2007
Your daily route can store a semester of facts. The memory champion's study system.
4.04
367
📚 Study Skills🧠 Memory Improvement🔗 Mnemonic Techniques🗺️ Method Of Loci⚡ Accelerated Learning
How to Pass Exams Summary
How to Pass Exams 89%
Your daily route can store a semester of facts. The memory champion's study system.
by Dominic O'Brien 2007
4.04
367 ratings
📚 Study Skills🧠 Memory Improvement🔗 Mnemonic Techniques🗺️ Method Of Loci⚡ Accelerated Learning
Unlimited Memory
by Kevin Horsley • 2014
Your memory is a tool, not a camera; learn visualization techniques that make anything stick.
4.01
23k+
🧠 Memory Techniques📚 Study Skills👁️ Visualization🔁 Spaced Repetition🏋️ Self-Discipline
Unlimited Memory Summary
Unlimited Memory 89%
Your memory is a tool, not a camera; learn visualization techniques that make anything stick.
by Kevin Horsley 2014
4.01
23k+ ratings
🧠 Memory Techniques📚 Study Skills👁️ Visualization🔁 Spaced Repetition🏋️ Self-Discipline
Memory How to Develop, Train, and Use It
by William Walker Atkinson • 1911
Forget the memory tricks. An extraordinary memory is built on three habits you already practice.
3.75
938
🧠 Memory Improvement👁️ Attention Training🔗 Associative Learning🏋️ Mental Fitness🌿 Natural Memory
Memory How to Develop, Train, and Use It Summary
Memory How to Develop, Train, and Use It 89%
Forget the memory tricks. An extraordinary memory is built on three habits you already practice.
by William Walker Atkinson 1911
3.75
938 ratings
🧠 Memory Improvement👁️ Attention Training🔗 Associative Learning🏋️ Mental Fitness🌿 Natural Memory
How to Memorize Anything
by Aditi Singhal • 2015
Names, numbers, facts: turn any of them into vivid mental pictures and recall them on command.
4.04
323
🧠 Memory Improvement📚 Study Skills🔗 Mnemonic Devices🏰 Memory Palaces👁️ Visual Association
How to Memorize Anything Summary
How to Memorize Anything 89%
Names, numbers, facts: turn any of them into vivid mental pictures and recall them on command.
by Aditi Singhal 2015
4.04
323 ratings
🧠 Memory Improvement📚 Study Skills🔗 Mnemonic Devices🏰 Memory Palaces👁️ Visual Association
Memory Superpowers!
by Nelson Dellis • 2020
A memory champion's playbook: turn everything into wild mental pictures and never forget a name.
4.30
90
🧠 Memory Techniques🔗 Mnemonics📚 Study Skills🏛️ Method Of Loci👁️ Visual Memory
Memory Superpowers! Summary
Memory Superpowers! 89%
A memory champion's playbook: turn everything into wild mental pictures and never forget a name.
by Nelson Dellis 2020
4.30
90 ratings
🧠 Memory Techniques🔗 Mnemonics📚 Study Skills🏛️ Method Of Loci👁️ Visual Memory
The Forgetting Machine
by Rodrigo Quian Quiroga • 2017
Your memory stores roughly 125 MB. The real marvel is what your brain decides to forget.
3.74
1k+
🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience🧠 Philosophy Of Mind🧠 Constructive Memory🧠 Role Of Forgetting🧠 Neural Representation
The Forgetting Machine Summary
The Forgetting Machine 89%
Your memory stores roughly 125 MB. The real marvel is what your brain decides to forget.
by Rodrigo Quian Quiroga 2017
3.74
1k+ ratings
🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience🧠 Philosophy Of Mind🧠 Constructive Memory🧠 Role Of Forgetting🧠 Neural Representation
How to Develop a Brilliant Memory Week by Week
by Dominic O'Brien • 2005
2,808 shuffled cards memorized. The 50-step training system that can make your memory that reliable.
3.95
800
🧠 Memory Techniques💪 Brain Health🏛️ Method Of Loci🔢 Number Mnemonics👤 Name Recall
How to Develop a Brilliant Memory Week by Week Summary
How to Develop a Brilliant Memory Week by Week 89%
2,808 shuffled cards memorized. The 50-step training system that can make your memory that reliable.
by Dominic O'Brien 2005
3.95
800 ratings
🧠 Memory Techniques💪 Brain Health🏛️ Method Of Loci🔢 Number Mnemonics👤 Name Recall
My Father's Brain
by Sandeep Jauhar • 2023
A cardiologist watches his father forget how to use a fork. His medical training offers nothing.
4.14
2k+
🧠 Alzheimer's Disease📋 Dementia Care👨‍👩‍👦 Family Caregiving🕳️ Memory Loss📖 Medical Memoir
My Father's Brain Summary
My Father's Brain 89%
A cardiologist watches his father forget how to use a fork. His medical training offers nothing.
by Sandeep Jauhar 2023
4.14
2k+ ratings
🧠 Alzheimer's Disease📋 Dementia Care👨‍👩‍👦 Family Caregiving🕳️ Memory Loss📖 Medical Memoir
Time Warped
by Claudia Hammond • 2012
Your brain builds time from emotion and memory. That is why life accelerates and accidents crawl.
3.53
1k+
🕰️ Time Perception🧠 Popular Neuroscience💭 Memory And Self👁️ Attention And Focus🌊 Flow State
Time Warped Summary
Time Warped 89%
Your brain builds time from emotion and memory. That is why life accelerates and accidents crawl.
by Claudia Hammond 2012
3.53
1k+ ratings
🕰️ Time Perception🧠 Popular Neuroscience💭 Memory And Self👁️ Attention And Focus🌊 Flow State
On the Move
by Oliver Sacks • 2015
Patients frozen for decades took one drug and woke. Their neurologist was not ready.
4.03
22k+
🧠 Clinical Neurology🩺 Medical Memoir🧬 Neurological Disorders📖 Narrative Medicine🔄 Neuroplasticity
On the Move Summary
On the Move 89%
Patients frozen for decades took one drug and woke. Their neurologist was not ready.
by Oliver Sacks 2015
4.03
22k+ ratings
🧠 Clinical Neurology🩺 Medical Memoir🧬 Neurological Disorders📖 Narrative Medicine🔄 Neuroplasticity
Remember Everything You Want and Manage the Rest
by Helmut Sachs • 2013
Keep what matters, organize the rest: a system to train your memory and master your knowledge.
3.87
246
🧠 Memory Improvement🏛️ Mnemonic Techniques⏳ Spaced Repetition📋 Knowledge Management🎯 Attention Management
Remember Everything You Want and Manage the Rest Summary
Remember Everything You Want and Manage the Rest 89%
Keep what matters, organize the rest: a system to train your memory and master your knowledge.
by Helmut Sachs 2013
3.87
246 ratings
🧠 Memory Improvement🏛️ Mnemonic Techniques⏳ Spaced Repetition📋 Knowledge Management🎯 Attention Management
Cognitive Neuroscience
by Richard Passingham • 2016
Seeing is not believing: your brain builds reality from parallel streams, then fact-checks itself.
3.71
318
🧠 Brain Science📚 Cognitive Psychology🧪 Neuropsychology👁️ Perception Science💾 Memory Systems
Cognitive Neuroscience Summary
Cognitive Neuroscience 89%
Seeing is not believing: your brain builds reality from parallel streams, then fact-checks itself.
by Richard Passingham 2016
3.71
318 ratings
🧠 Brain Science📚 Cognitive Psychology🧪 Neuropsychology👁️ Perception Science💾 Memory Systems
The Mind's Past
by Michael S. Gazzaniga • 1998
Your brain acts, then invents a story about why. Your conscious self gets the press release.
3.77
115
🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience👁️ Consciousness Studies⚡ Unconscious Processing🎭 Self-Deception🔄 Memory Distortion
The Mind's Past Summary
The Mind's Past 89%
Your brain acts, then invents a story about why. Your conscious self gets the press release.
by Michael S. Gazzaniga 1998
3.77
115 ratings
🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience👁️ Consciousness Studies⚡ Unconscious Processing🎭 Self-Deception🔄 Memory Distortion
NeuroLogic
by Eliezer J. Sternberg • 2016
Your brain constructs reality, rewrites memory, and confuses your inner voice for someone else's.
4.26
848
🧠 Unconscious Processing🔄 Dual Process Theory💭 Reconstructive Memory🏋️ Mental Rehearsal🪞 Self And Identity
NeuroLogic Summary
NeuroLogic 89%
Your brain constructs reality, rewrites memory, and confuses your inner voice for someone else's.
by Eliezer J. Sternberg 2016
4.26
848 ratings
🧠 Unconscious Processing🔄 Dual Process Theory💭 Reconstructive Memory🏋️ Mental Rehearsal🪞 Self And Identity
An Alchemy of Mind
by Diane Ackerman • 2004
A poet's tour of the brain: how 100 billion neurons invent your reality.
3.96
1k+
🧠 Neuroscience🔬 Cognitive Science💭 Consciousness Studies🔄 Brain Plasticity🪞 Memory And Identity
An Alchemy of Mind Summary
An Alchemy of Mind 89%
A poet's tour of the brain: how 100 billion neurons invent your reality.
by Diane Ackerman 2004
3.96
1k+ ratings
🧠 Neuroscience🔬 Cognitive Science💭 Consciousness Studies🔄 Brain Plasticity🪞 Memory And Identity
The Memory Palace
by Mira Bartok • 2011
She lost her memory. She found her schizophrenic mother's paintings. A reunion in art.
3.55
8k+
💔 Childhood Trauma🎨 Art As Refuge🧠 Memory And Identity🧩 Mentally Ill Parents🩹 Brain Injury Memoir
The Memory Palace Summary
The Memory Palace 89%
She lost her memory. She found her schizophrenic mother's paintings. A reunion in art.
by Mira Bartok 2011
3.55
8k+ ratings
💔 Childhood Trauma🎨 Art As Refuge🧠 Memory And Identity🧩 Mentally Ill Parents🩹 Brain Injury Memoir
Idiot Brain
by Dean Burnett • 2016
Motion sickness, overeating, and anxiety: not glitches but survival instincts from the savannah.
3.97
11k+
🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience🧬 Evolutionary Psychology🧩 Cognitive Biases📝 Memory Fallibility👁️ Sensory Perception
Idiot Brain Summary
Idiot Brain 89%
Motion sickness, overeating, and anxiety: not glitches but survival instincts from the savannah.
by Dean Burnett 2016
3.97
11k+ ratings
🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience🧬 Evolutionary Psychology🧩 Cognitive Biases📝 Memory Fallibility👁️ Sensory Perception
The Extended Mind
by Richard Menary • 2008
The mind does not end at the skull. Tools and notebooks may be genuine parts of thinking.
3.76
41
🧠 Philosophy Of Mind🔬 Cognitive Science🤸 Embodied Cognition🔗 Externalism💭 Consciousness Studies
The Extended Mind Summary
The Extended Mind 89%
The mind does not end at the skull. Tools and notebooks may be genuine parts of thinking.
by Richard Menary 2008
3.76
41 ratings
🧠 Philosophy Of Mind🔬 Cognitive Science🤸 Embodied Cognition🔗 Externalism💭 Consciousness Studies
The Self Illusion
by Bruce M. Hood • 2011
Your brain constructs the story of a unified you. Memory, culture, and neurons are the ingredients.
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2k+
🧩 The Constructed Self🧠 Memory Unreliability🪞 Social Identity🌍 Cultural Psychology🎭 Free Will Debate
The Self Illusion Summary
The Self Illusion 89%
Your brain constructs the story of a unified you. Memory, culture, and neurons are the ingredients.
by Bruce M. Hood 2011
3.84
2k+ ratings
🧩 The Constructed Self🧠 Memory Unreliability🪞 Social Identity🌍 Cultural Psychology🎭 Free Will Debate
Cognition
by Daniel Reisberg • 2005
How the mind constructs perception, memory, and reasoning, revealed by key experiments.
3.78
281
🧠 Cognitive Psychology👁️ Attention & Perception🧩 Memory Systems🗣️ Language And Mind💭 Thinking And Reasoning
Cognition Summary
Cognition 89%
How the mind constructs perception, memory, and reasoning, revealed by key experiments.
by Daniel Reisberg 2005
3.78
281 ratings
🧠 Cognitive Psychology👁️ Attention & Perception🧩 Memory Systems🗣️ Language And Mind💭 Thinking And Reasoning
The Organized Mind
by Daniel J. Levitin • 2014
Attention bandwidth: 120 bits per second. Two conversations fill it. Defend the rest.
3.65
15k+
🌊 Information Overload💼 Knowledge Work🎯 Attention Management🧠 Memory Systems📋 Productivity Systems
The Organized Mind Summary
The Organized Mind 89%
Attention bandwidth: 120 bits per second. Two conversations fill it. Defend the rest.
by Daniel J. Levitin 2014
3.65
15k+ ratings
🌊 Information Overload💼 Knowledge Work🎯 Attention Management🧠 Memory Systems📋 Productivity Systems
The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind
by Barbara K. Lipska • 2018
She studied mental illness for decades. Then 18 brain tumors gave it to her firsthand.
3.89
8k+
🧠 Neuroscience Memoir🔖 Medical Memoir🩺 Medical Mystery🧬 Brain Disorders🔄 Neural Plasticity
The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind Summary
The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind 89%
She studied mental illness for decades. Then 18 brain tumors gave it to her firsthand.
by Barbara K. Lipska 2018
3.89
8k+ ratings
🧠 Neuroscience Memoir🔖 Medical Memoir🩺 Medical Mystery🧬 Brain Disorders🔄 Neural Plasticity
How Your Brain Works
by New Scientist • 2017
86 billion neurons construct your reality, rewrite your past, and scrub themselves clean each night.
3.92
353
🧠 Neuroscience Primers👁️ Perception And Reality💭 Memory Systems🌌 Consciousness Studies🔄 Brain Plasticity
How Your Brain Works Summary
How Your Brain Works 89%
86 billion neurons construct your reality, rewrite your past, and scrub themselves clean each night.
by New Scientist 2017
3.92
353 ratings
🧠 Neuroscience Primers👁️ Perception And Reality💭 Memory Systems🌌 Consciousness Studies🔄 Brain Plasticity
On Pluto
by Greg O'Brien • 2014
What a journalist sees when he turns his reporter's eye on his own disappearing brain.
3.96
1k+
🧠 Dementia Memoir🩺 Medical Memoir🌫️ Cognitive Decline🧬 Early-Onset Alzheimer's🫂 Family Caregiving
On Pluto Summary
On Pluto 89%
What a journalist sees when he turns his reporter's eye on his own disappearing brain.
by Greg O'Brien 2014
3.96
1k+ ratings
🧠 Dementia Memoir🩺 Medical Memoir🌫️ Cognitive Decline🧬 Early-Onset Alzheimer's🫂 Family Caregiving
I Am a Strange Loop
by Douglas R. Hofstadter • 2007
The self is an abstract loop the brain builds, and Gödel's proof shows how.
3.95
9k+
🧠 Philosophy Of Mind🔬 Cognitive Science👁️ Consciousness Studies🌊 Emergence🪞 Theory Of Self
I Am a Strange Loop Summary
I Am a Strange Loop 89%
The self is an abstract loop the brain builds, and Gödel's proof shows how.
by Douglas R. Hofstadter 2007
3.95
9k+ ratings
🧠 Philosophy Of Mind🔬 Cognitive Science👁️ Consciousness Studies🌊 Emergence🪞 Theory Of Self
The Root of Thought
by Andrew Koob • 2009
Neurons are ten percent of your brain. The overlooked ninety percent may control thought itself.
3.68
135
🧠 Neuroscience History🔄 Brain Plasticity💭 Memory Science🔬 Scientific Paradigms🏥 Brain Disorders
The Root of Thought Summary
The Root of Thought 89%
Neurons are ten percent of your brain. The overlooked ninety percent may control thought itself.
by Andrew Koob 2009
3.68
135 ratings
🧠 Neuroscience History🔄 Brain Plasticity💭 Memory Science🔬 Scientific Paradigms🏥 Brain Disorders
Everything in Its Place
by Oliver Sacks • 2019
Oliver Sacks's final essays: what broken brains reveal about music, identity, and being human.
4.14
3k+
🧠 Neurology🩺 Medical Humanities📖 Narrative Medicine👁️ Altered Perception🏛️ History Of Psychiatry
Everything in Its Place Summary
Everything in Its Place 89%
Oliver Sacks's final essays: what broken brains reveal about music, identity, and being human.
by Oliver Sacks 2019
4.14
3k+ ratings
🧠 Neurology🩺 Medical Humanities📖 Narrative Medicine👁️ Altered Perception🏛️ History Of Psychiatry
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons
by Sam Kean • 2014
History's most bizarre brain traumas, and what each one revealed about your mind.
4.25
14k+
🧠 Neuroscience📜 History Of Science🏥 Medical History📖 Clinical Tales🧩 Neurological Disorders
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons Summary
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons 89%
History's most bizarre brain traumas, and what each one revealed about your mind.
by Sam Kean 2014
4.25
14k+ ratings
🧠 Neuroscience📜 History Of Science🏥 Medical History📖 Clinical Tales🧩 Neurological Disorders
Become a SuperLearner
by Jonathan A. Levi • 2015
Triple your reading speed without losing comprehension by retraining two unconscious habits.
3.81
249
⚡ Speed Reading🧠 Memory Techniques📚 Learning How To Learn👁️ Visual Memory🔁 Spaced Repetition
Become a SuperLearner Summary
Become a SuperLearner 88%
Triple your reading speed without losing comprehension by retraining two unconscious habits.
by Jonathan A. Levi 2015
3.81
249 ratings
⚡ Speed Reading🧠 Memory Techniques📚 Learning How To Learn👁️ Visual Memory🔁 Spaced Repetition
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