The Anatomy of Bias: How Neural Circuits Weigh the Options
Jan Lauwereyns brings together concepts that are generally treated as disparate, and traces the historical evolution of their relation to one another and to current research. The significance of this contribution will be partly as a stimulus to new ideas (for my own part, reading this book prompted a great deal of thought -- not just about relationships between concepts, but ideas for possible new experiments), as well as its achievement in situating current ideas about decision firmly in their historical intellectual milieu.Anatomy of Biasis the kind of book that will change people's thinking -- and lives.(R.H.S. Carpenter, Professor of Oculomotor Physiology, Department of Physiology, Development, and Neuroscience, Cambridge University)