About the brain, but not the cognitive part
- Hallucinations by Sacks 2012
- Imagine: How Creativity Works by Jonah Lehrer, 2012
- Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior by Leonard Mlodinow, 2012 pb 2013 stories of unconscuos re:perception etc, not necessarily ct
- The New Brain: How the modern age is rewiring your mind by Richard Restak
- How Intelligence Happens by John Duncan, 2010
- On Intelligence by Sandra Blakeslee 2005
- 3/11 What is Emotion? History, Measures, and Meaning By Jerome Kagan (2007)
- 2/10 Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves, by Sharon Begley (2007)
- Matthews, Gerald, et al, Emotional Intelligence: Science and Myth (2002, 585 pp.) empirical findings debunk extravagant claims. Not for layman, but readable. Good depth on definitions, criteria for theory; exhaustive.
- Brain for All Seasons: human evolution and abrupt climate change by Willm Calvin, 2002
- The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker 1994
- In Search of Memory, by Eric Kandel
- E. O. Wilson’s controversial chapters from Sociobiology