 Book cover | |
| Author | David Eagleman |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | Neuroscience |
| Genre | Science |
| Published | May 31, 2011, Pantheon (US), Canongate (UK) |
| Media type | Hardcover, paperback, audiobook, e-Book |
| ISBN | 0-307-37733-4 978-0307377333 |
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain is a 2011 New York Times best-selling[1] nonfiction book by American neuroscientist David Eagleman,[2] an adjunct professor at Stanford University.[3] The book explores the juxtaposition of the conscious and the unconscious mind, with Eagleman summing up the text's themes with the question: "If the conscious mind—the part you consider to be you—is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing?"[4]
In Incognito, Eagleman contends that most of the operations of the brain are inaccessible to awareness, such that the conscious mind "is like a stowaway on a transatlantic steam ship, taking credit for the journey without acknowledging the massive engineering underfoot."
- ^ Inside the NYT Bestseller's List, New York Times Sunday Book Review, June 10, 2011
- ^ David Eagleman and the Mysteries of the Brain, The New Yorker, April 25, 2011.
- ^ Eagleman homepage at Stanford
- ^ see Incognito's mini-website (under Eagleman's official website)