The Oxford Companion to the Mind

• The long-awaited second edition to the highly acclaimed and immensely successful Oxford Companion to the Mind
• 900 articles on every aspect of the brain and consciousness and over 300 contributors from the world's leading scholars
• Cultural as well as scientific in its approach, it combines authoritative description and analysis with lightness, wit, and a personal touch
• New entries include artificial life, attachment theory, caffeine, conjuring, cruelty, drama, extra-terrestrial intelligence, face-to-face communication, genetics of mental illness, imagination, lying, puzzles, twins
• Features three new mini symposia - on consciousness, brain imaging, and artificial intelligence - with contributions from a range of specialists, representing the variety of approaches to these major subjects in a balanced but lively and personal way
• Includes Roger Penrose and Steven Rose on consciousness; Beryl Bainbridge on construction of fiction; Raj Persaud on depression; Richard Gregory on facial expression, illusions of vision and consciousness, Ted Honderich on free will; Noam Chomsky on language

New to this edition

• Three new mini symposia - on consciousness, brain imaging, and artificial intelligence - with contributions from a range of specialists, representing the variety of approaches to these major subjects in a balanced but lively and personal way
• New entries include artificial life, attachment theory, caffeine, conjuring, cruelty, drama, extra-terrestrial intelligence, face-to-face communication, genetics of mental illness, imagination, lying, puzzles, twins
• New contributors include: Beryl Bainbridge, Simon Baron-Cohen, Simon Blackburn, Dylan Evans, Ted Honderich, Patrick Moore, Roger Penrose, Raj Persaud
• Glossary

Readership: The second edition of The Oxford Companion to the Mind, like the first, will be read by psychologists, psychiatrists, neuroscientists, counsellors, therapists, and by students in all these areas, but also by a large general readership interested in all aspects of the the human mind - consciousness, behaviour, communication, memory, mental illness, non-western conceptions of the mind.

Edited by Richard L. Gregory, Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology, Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol

"This wonderful companion has lived in my study and been a pleasure for browsing. Richard Gregory is surely the ideal guide for a grand tour of the mind- engaging and personable, his stamp is impressed throughout, with wit, humour, knowledge, insights and eccentricities, as well as fine obituaries. Without doubt this would make a perfect present for any psychologist or would-be psychologist student." - The Psychologist

Review(s) from previous edition

"any reader with a serious interest in mental phenomena will find this a feast of a book - Times Higher Education Supplement

"a masterful compilation in one volume of virtually every important aspect of mind, brain and consciousness" - Washington Post

"This new edition deserves a place on the shelf of any psychology buff" - FT Magazine

"the book is wholly admirable and will give pleasure, enlightenment and stimulation in all the years to come" - Guardian

"The second edition of Richard Gregory's lovely book does justice to the greatness of its subject and to its renowned predecessor." - Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

"The book's compact and sober exterior belies a breadth and exuberance as astonishing as the paradoxes it celebrates." - Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

"...universally readable, frequently entertaining, and sometimes historic pieces ranging in scope from definitions and brief vignettes to substantial essays." - Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Preface
Contributors
Glossary
Note to the Reader
The Oxford Companion to the Mind A-Z
Index
Acknowledgements