Book: The Myth of Mirror Neurons—The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition By: Gregory Hickok
Negatives:
He spends about half the book telling you about why lots of claims regarding mirror neurons are wrong. If you started out not having strong opinions on these ideas, it gets a bit tedious.
Positives:
In the other half of the book he lays out the best overview description of the brain I’ve seen so far. (However any such storry is nesserarely speculative, so “good description” mostly means “seemed reasonable to me”.)
He compares his views with other theories.
The chapter on Autism is awsome.
I’m currently reading a neuroscience textbook too. The textbook is full of brain damage anectotes, and specific experimental results, but no overaraching storries to put it all toghether. I’m guesing this is becasue any overarching storry is too speculative to put in a textbook. I found this book helpfull in binding it all together.
If you’re really interested, I recomend reading both a textbook, and several non-textbooks, to get both the detailed facts, and several speculative models. That’s what I’m doing. But if you’re only going to read one book, this is the one I recomend.
Book: The Myth of Mirror Neurons—The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition
By: Gregory Hickok
Negatives:
He spends about half the book telling you about why lots of claims regarding mirror neurons are wrong. If you started out not having strong opinions on these ideas, it gets a bit tedious.
Positives:
In the other half of the book he lays out the best overview description of the brain I’ve seen so far. (However any such storry is nesserarely speculative, so “good description” mostly means “seemed reasonable to me”.)
He compares his views with other theories.
The chapter on Autism is awsome.
I’m currently reading a neuroscience textbook too. The textbook is full of brain damage anectotes, and specific experimental results, but no overaraching storries to put it all toghether. I’m guesing this is becasue any overarching storry is too speculative to put in a textbook. I found this book helpfull in binding it all together.
If you’re really interested, I recomend reading both a textbook, and several non-textbooks, to get both the detailed facts, and several speculative models. That’s what I’m doing. But if you’re only going to read one book, this is the one I recomend.