The best books about the brain start with the basics, including the key parts, functions, and processes of the brain. These foundations lay the groundwork for further understanding the mind.

The Believing Brain: From Ghosts To Gods To Politics And Conspiracies — How We Construct Beliefs And Reinforce Them As Truths. By Michael Shermer, hardcover, 400 pages, Times Books, list price: $28 ...

Forthcoming popular science books broaden our understanding of the human mind, touching on its evolution over time, its development from conception to birth, and on the meaning of consciousness ...

In his new book, “Reading in the Brain,” he describes his quest to understand an astounding feat that most of us take for granted: translating marks on a page (or a screen) into language.

The best of the brain books in 2016 featured deception, empathy, placebos, gaming, algorithms, microbes and that little voice in your head. Whether touching on psychology, neuroscience or the mind ...

This March, the SciFri Book Club will read Dr. Mary-Frances O’Connor’s The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss.Out in paperback this February, The Grieving Brain ...

From books about the beauty and intricacies of the brain, to ones that explore the neuroscience of autism and individuality, these are great to read and gift.

Sometime after arriving at Princeton, his schedule packed with teaching, running his lab and publishing papers, Wang nonetheless started to think, too, about producing a book that might popularize ...

Taking away screens and reading to our children during the formative years of birth to age 5 boosts brain development. We all know that’s true, but now science can convince us with startling images.

His gifts, on display in “Reading in the Brain,” include an aptitude for complex experiments and an appetite for detail. This makes for excellent science but not, paradoxically, easy reading.

The habenula is our brain’s protector, designed to shut down our motivation in response to perceived failure, frustration, or a sense of powerlessness.

To measure brain responses when infants were read books with named characters, researchers fitted them with a net of 128 sensors that recorded the electricity naturally emitted from the scalp.