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Mind in Motion

4/5. I’ve been burned by a lot of popular science books on the brain, so I was expecting the usual cutesy dumbed down similes and shallow philosophizing. Instead, I got a dense, chewy, difficult book that explores some pretty deep and weird waters of how thinking actually works. Bonus points for noticing that disability exists, and disabled cognition is a useful research tool in exploring cognition for the ways that it differs from nondisabled cognition and, far more often, the ways it doesn’t. You’d be shocked how many scientists never bother to think about this. Recommended, but not for the casual reader – you’ve probably got to be pretty interested in this stuff to get through this brusque, dense book.

Date: 2023-08-29 10:48 pm (UTC)
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Oh ho this seems Relevant To My Interests.

That sounds lovely!

Date: 2023-09-05 05:04 pm (UTC)
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Disabled people's experience has been fundamental to so much biomedical research, especially about the brain -- starting with Phineas Gage -- and so often our contributions are hidden behind a scrim of privacy.

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