The Brain: A Very Short Introduction provides a non-technical introduction to the main issues and findings in current brain research and gives a sense of how neuroscience addresses questions about the relationship between the brain and the mind. Short, clear discussions on the mechanical workings of the brain are offered and the details of brain science are covered in an accessible style. Expla…
Research on concepts has concentrated on the way people apply concepts online, when presented with a stimulus. Just as important, however, is the use of concepts offline, when planning what to do or thinking about what is the case. There is strong evidence that inferences driven by conceptual thought draw heavily on special-purpose resources: sensory, motoric, affective, and evaluative. At the …
In the early 1340s, the painter Ambrogio Lorenzetti (ca. 1290–1348) accepted a commission to paint a series of frescoes illustrating Franciscan narrative scenes for the chapter house of San Francesco in Siena, Italy. In the scene that so intrigued me, The Martyrdom of the Franciscans, Ambrogio depicted the execution of six Franciscans, possibly at a Mongo…