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Nature 452, 938-939 (24 April 2008) | doi:10.1038/452938a; Published online 23 April 2008

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Biased brains, messy memories

Sandra Aamodt1

BOOK REVIEWEDKluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind

by Gary Marcus

Houghton Mifflin: 2008. 224 pp. $24

BOOK REVIEWEDA Portrait of the Brain

by Adam Zeman

Yale University Press: 2008. 256 pp. $27.50

Public interest in the brain seems to be insatiable, judging from the many popular books about the topic that have been published in the past few years. Highlighting the diversity of this expanding genre, two books aimed at general readers provide views of brain science in very different styles.