“Mapping the
Mind”: what the critics said:

UK reviews:

“A
tour de force – a compendium of anecdote, research and speculation that
is quite breathtaking.
Carter’s approach is bold, and displays an impressive grasp of the
intricacies of brain research. ”Mapping the Mind” is excellent,
informative and provocative”

Professor Haydn Ellis,
vice-chancellor Cardiff
University

“New Scientist”

“Riveting and up to
the minute”

– Maggie Gee,

Daily Telegraph

“one
of the clearest and best illustrated attempts to explain the virtually
inaccessible – the human brain”

John Cornwell,

Sunday Times

” a fascinating
account of the
ways in which human behaviour and culture have been moulded by
the landscape of the brain…this is not a deterministic book that reduces
human complexity to a laboratory probe, it is more of a user’s manual

Jeanette Winterson,

The Times

“a
handsomely produced and accessible introduction to our startling new ability to
observe and understand the brain. No previous knowledge is assumed, but by the
end the reader will be well-informed of the latest developments”

Anthony Daniels

Sunday Telegraph

“A rich and
rewarding book to help us on our way “

Brian Aldiss

Daily Mail

“Within the
hardware of the brain there lurks a software called
the mind. Rita Carter has brilliantly conveyed the thrill of discovering what
this software can do”

Matt Ridley,

Guardian

“Carter describes what technology has revealed about the mind in a
very accessible mix of words and sumptuous illustrations [but] despite
appearances it is more [Steven] Pinker than coffee-table

Robert Matthews,

Daily Telegraph

“as
an illustrated guide to how it all works, this one should be on your shelf”

Maggie McDonald,

New scientist

“a
thorough and exceedingly readable analysis…”

Anjana Ahuja,

The Times

US Reviews: (“Mapping the Mind”

“The book is indeed
brilliant. It covers virtually the whole landscape of cognitive neuroscience in
a style and organisation that makes it riveting and highly accessible to a
general audience”

Professor Helen Neville, Department of Psychology, University of Oregon (pre-publication
peer review for UCP)

“Highly readable
– Carter has done a fine job of providing a broad sketch of the current
state of cognitive neuroscience. Her writing style is very engaging and will
certainly not turn off the lay reader. She does a superb job of presenting a
view of brain function from an evolutionary perspective. She presents the
background details in a compact and comprehensible manner then uses them as scaffolding
for delving into the more complex problems about what makes us human.
“

Professor Richard Ivry, University of California

(pre-publication
peer review)

“An up-to-date,
easy to read
happy hybrid of textbook and coffee-table tome”  Washington Post

“In a crisp and
engaging style Carter provides glimpses into the neurological disorders, an
anatomy of human emotions and an engrossing discussion of perception and
language “

Library Journal

This beautiful book can be unreservedly
recommended to anyone who wants a non-technical guide to brain research. It is
superbly illustrated with clear and colourful diagrams and brain-scan images,
and, apart from the pictures that adorn the start of each chapter, eschews the
page-padding artwork that clogs up the pages of New Scientist and other popular
science publications.

Certainly it is a substantially better
buy than Susan Greenfield's "The Human Brain", a work devoid of
illustrations and often less than lucid.

Paul Taylor The Skeptic

And if you want more – here’s what Amazon
customers say (34 at last count): http://www.amazon.ca/Mapping-Mind-Rita-Carter/dp/customer-reviews/0520219376

And this is one of the nicest blog
entries I have stumbled upon (thank you!) http://livingtomorrow.blogspot.com/2006/02/mapping-mind.html