Making up the Mind

Illusions, priming, rubber hands, self-tickling, neurotransmitters, ambiguity, Bayesian observers, hard-wired knowledge, mirror neurons ... Christopher Frith touches upon a vast multitude of facts, experiments and theories about how our brain interacts with the world, and he does it in a highly engaging fashion. A lot of the content i've read about before elsewhere, but somehow Frith manages to tie elements together smoothly and makes you see new connections.

I liked the style of including more detailed graphics and notes on experiments alongside the main writing, that you could choose to explore or ignore based on interest.

Perception is a fantasy that coincides with reality - our brain creates models of the world and constantly tries to adapt those models based on sensory experience.