Grace Lindsay - Models of the Mind

Also available in the Bloomsbury Sigma series:

Sex on Earth by Jules Howard

Spirals in Time by Helen Scales

A Is for Arsenic by Kathryn Harkup

Herding Hemingways Cats by Kat Arney

Death on Earth by Jules Howard

The Tyrannosaur Chronicles by David Hone

Soccermatics by David Sumpter

Goldilocks and the Water Bears by Louisa Preston

Science and the City by Laurie Winkless

Bring Back the King by Helen Pilcher

Built on Bones by Brenna Hassett

The Planet Factory by Elizabeth Tasker

I, Mammal by Liam Drew

Making the Monster by Kathryn Harkup

Catching Stardust by Natalie Starkey

Seeds of Science by Mark Lynas

Eye of the Shoal by Helen Scales

Nodding Off by Alice Gregory

The Science of Sin by Jack Lewis

The Edge of Memory by Patrick Nunn

Turned On by Kate Devlin

Borrowed Time by Sue Armstrong

We Need to Talk About Love by Laura Mucha

The Vinyl Frontier by Jonathan Scott

Clearing the Air by Tim Smedley

Superheavy by Kit Chapman

Genuine Fakes by Lydia Pyne

Grilled by Leah Garcs

The Contact Paradox by Keith Cooper

Life Changing by Helen Pilcher

Friendship by Lydia Denworth

Death by Shakespeare by Kathryn Harkup

Sway by Pragya Agarwal

Bad News by Rob Brotherton

Unfit for Purpose by Adam Hart

Mirror Thinking by Fiona Murden

Kindred by Rebecca Wragg Sykes

First Light by Emma Chapman

Ouch! by Margee Kerr and Linda Rodriguez McRobbie

In memory of my father

Contents

As I write this I am pregnant with my first child. They say it takes a village to raise a kid. I believe that is eventually true, but so far it has been a relatively solitary experience. Writing a book, on the other hand, seems to take a village from the start.

First, I have to thank my husband, Josh. We met while both getting our PhDs at the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at Columbia, which meant he had to serve both as moral support and as fact-checker throughout this process. He also did a good job of making sure I at least occasionally ate proper meals and saw some friends. Id also like to thank members of his family Sharon, Roger, Laurie for their support and excitement.

I owe a tremendous debt to the NeuWrite community. I first joined this group of scientists and writers when I was a graduate student in New York and quickly joined the London chapter once I moved to the UK. In addition to putting me in contact with the people at Sigma, the members of NeuWrite also provided advice and commiseration about book-writing in general. The opportunity to regularly workshop my chapters with this group helped quell my writing anxiety and, of course, made the book better.