The goal is to discuss in what regard the discourse of neuroscience about the brain produces a particular notion of personhood. In particular, I investigate authors and texts that disseminate science. The idea of the 'brain as a person' is repeated in several formats in books written by renowned neuroscientists designed to reach their specialist pairs, as well as to establish and expand the number of people who become intrigued about how the brain works. I postulate, to contribute to the debate, the idea that a 'cerebralism' - a physicalist conception of person that relates the brain and the individual - is a central feature in the notion of the modern person.
person; brain; neuroscience; scientific divulging