anatomical interests

Currently Reading -

The Working Brain (Luria)

Currently Finished -

Hat (Sacks)

please remember to read -

Adrian Owen's work, primarily research papers and "Into the Gray Zone"



Major Figures

  1. Hughlings Jackson - "Jaksonian" neurology, dreamy states, reminiscene, ideas in propositional calculus

  2. Kurt Goldstein - abstraction of the "Abstract"

  3. Henry Head - schematic diagram maker, feeling tone

  4. A.R. Luria - structural books - "Higher Cortical Functions of Man", (Classical Science), and biographical novels - "The Mind of Mnemonist", (Romantic Science !)

To Read -

  1. Goldstein's The Organism: A Holistic Approach to Biology and Pathological Data in Man

  2. Luria's Human BRain and Psychological Processes, The Working Brain and Higher Cortical Functions of Man

  3. Korsakobv's 1887 supplemented with Lurias' Neuropsychology of Memory, also Freud's On Aphasia

  4. Proprioception and the Disembodiment of the same - Sherrington's The Integrative Action of Nervous System

  5. Dostoievski's Epilepsy by Alajounanine (1963) and Salaman's A Collection of Moments 1970

  6. maybe relevant to recent RLHF research - Marr's A Computational Investigation of Visual Representation in Man, 1982

  7. Nagel & Newmann's "Godel's Proof", 1958