O’Reilly publish the world famous IT guidebooks and the superb Hacks series (e.g. Amazon Hacks & Google Hacks). Now apparently they are joining the Neuroscience bandwagon with a new book in the hacks series: Brain Hacks. From Tom Stafford, one of the co-authors:
I’m writing a book, with my friend Matt, for O’Reilly, codenamed ‘Brain Hacks’The book is a selection of 100 design quirks of consciousness - ways in which constraints from neurobiology or evolution have produced unexpected features in cognition.
O’Reilly are an American publisher who produce computer books. One series they do, the Hacks series covers tips, tricks, unorthodox methods and functional insights for well known bits of software. This book will be the same, but covering for the bugs and features of the human operating system. A selection of functional anecdotes about the construction of conscious experience and behaviour. A smash and grab on the intellectual goodies of cognitive neuroscience!
Writing the book is going really well, and we’ve got some great people contributing. It’s great fun putting together practical demonstrations of important computational and cog neuro principles, and it’s even fun being driven slightly mad as I start to notice all the ways in which my experience of the world is constructed from the raw data available to my senses, and the ways my actions are delegated to different, intermeshed, subsystems. MORE
See a more details post from Matt Webb the other author here.
The lads are seeking submissions so if you have anything you think will fit in the book contact them via their blogs.
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