Five new neuroscience books, and other notable titles from 2026
The Transmitter ’s summer reading list includes an autopsy of the Human Brain Project, an overview of the neuroscience of motherhood and a memoir from a pioneer in Huntington’s disease research.
The Transmitter has compiled a summer reading list featuring five notable neuroscience books. One of these books, "A Mother's Brain: The New Science of the Neuro-Maternal Revolution," delves into the brain transformation that occurs during pregnancy, sharing personal experiences of motherhood. Another book, "Brain Flows: How Network Dynamics Compose the Human Mind," by cognitive neuroscientist Michael Cole, explores brain flows and their role in shaping free will, intelligence, and creativity.
The third book on the list, "The Phantom Mind: Insights from the Borderlands of Sleep," focuses on sleep paralysis and other disrupted sleep states, discussing their cultural impact and the neuroscience behind them. The fourth book, "A Brain for Europe: Big Science, Big Models, and the Politics of Unification," critiques the European Commission's Human Brain Project, analyzing debates over scientific governance and big team science.
The final book, "The Latent Brain: The New Science of How We Think, Feel, and Act," proposes a shift in neuroscience, suggesting that brain function is embodied in the collective activity of neuronal networks and dynamical systems. Lastly, "Brains Minds Machines: The Mystery of Human Intelligence, the Enigmas of the Artificial" provides a historical overview of scientists' attempts to understand intelligence and replicate it using mathematical modeling.
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