Books can provide excellent background on a topic, as they can explain and contextualize a phenomenon, and are often written in a more narrative style than academic articles. Books can be great for exploring and narrowing down your topic or learning the basics before you dive into primary research articles.
If you're interested in a broad topic in Neuroscience, or would like to browse for inspiration, try one of these Library of Congress call letters:
This book presents key findings in cognitive neuroscience, showing how thoughts, feelings, and consciousness arise from neural activity. Through brief explanations paired with brain images, it traces efforts to understand how mental processes emerge from the brain’s biological structures.
This book examines how the brain enables storytelling and how narratives shape cognition. It links story structure to neural processes involving time, action, perception, and social understanding, showing how narratives mediate the brain’s need for both stable patterns and adaptable responses.
This book traces how ideas about the brain have changed over time, showing how each era’s technologies shaped models of brain function. It examines why, despite major scientific advances, the brain’s workings remain only partly understood.
