Richard Passingham

A quick introductory book to Cognitive Neuroscience.

This book gives you a fact based approach of the brain.

I wasn't looking for facts about Brain. Actually, I was looking for theoretical,
conceptual schools of thought. This would give me ideas to borrow, and apply in research.

Let me give you the outline:

Perceiving,
Attention,
Remembering,
Reasoning,
Deciding,
Checking,
Acting,
The Future.

My favorite part of the book was, Meta-cognition, "Think about Thinking."

Educators would appreciate it. They'd like to teach students to think. In turn, they'd be enabled to be life-long learners.

I couldn't find answer for Raven’s Matrices, Figure 14.

My Answer is (2) -- Can you tell me, if it's correct? Thanks

Interesting that our Fluid Intelligence decreases with age.

Crystallized Intelligence increases, (accumulation of knowledge, experience) with age.

I’d suggest watching lectures of Jordan Peterson, Canadian Clinical Psychologist.

If you are learning about Brain, Psychology, Neuroscience, A.I Research, I'd suggest this short

Introduction.

Deus Vult,
Gottfried… (mere)

This book provides in 9 chapters a short, basic introduction to cognitive neuroscience, but its notion could not be called exactly basic and super straight-forward unless you have some kind of basic understanding of the anatomy, physiology and pathology of the brain and its lesions, graphs and illustration are very useful in that matter. Chapters except for the introductory and the final one start with questions and finish with answer to those questions. In the various chapters many aspects of our brain are examined like perception, attendance, remembrance, reasoning, decision making, checking and acting. An interesting book overall that may need perhaps a little bit more of a simplification or even better some previous reading about the brain from the reader… (mere)