| Description |
x, 296 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographic references and index. |
| Contents |
Primer: our human brain was not designed all at once by a genius inventor on a blank sheet of paper / David J. Linden -- Science is an ongoing process, not a belief system / William B. Kristan, Jr., and Kathleen A. French -- Genetics provides a window on human individuality / Jeremy Nathans -- Though the brain has billions of neurons, wiring it all up may depend upon very simple rules / Alex L. Kolodkin -- From birth onward, our experience of the world is dominated by the brain's continual conversation with itself / Sam Wang -- Children's brains are different / Amy Bastian -- Your twelve-year-old isn't just sprouting new hair but is also forming (and being formed by) new neural connections / Linda Wilbrecht -- How you use your brain can change its basic structural organization / Melissa Laue and Hollis Cline -- Tool use can instantly rewire the brain / Alison L. Barth -- Life experiences and addictive drugs change your brain in similar ways / Julie Kauer -- Like it or not, the brain grades on a curve / Indira M. Raman -- The brain achieves its computational power through a massively parallel architecture / Liqun Luo -- The brain harbors many neurotransmitters / Solomon H. Snyder -- The eye knows what is good for us / Aniruddha Das -- You have a superpower - it's called vision / Charles E. Connor -- The sense of taste encompasses two roles: conscious taste perception and subconscious metabolic responses / Paul A. S. Breslin -- It takes an ensemble of strangely shaped nerve endings to build a touch / David D. Ginty -- The bane of pain is plainly in the brain / Allan Basbaum -- Time's weird in the brain - that's a good thing, and here's why / Marshall G. Hussain Shuler and Vijay M. K. Namboodiri -- Electrical signals in the brain are strangely comprehensible / David Foster -- A comparative approach is imperative for the understanding of brain function / Cynthia F. Moss -- The cerebellum learns to predict the physics of our movements / Scott T. Albert and Reza Shadmehr -- Neuroscience can show us a new way to rehabilitate brain injury: the case of stroke / John W. Krakauer -- Almost everything you do is a habit / Adrian M. Haith -- Interpreting information in voice requires brain circuits for emotional recognition and expression / Darcy B. Kelley -- Mind reading emerged at least twice in the course of evolution / Gül Dölen -- We are born to help others / Peggy Mason -- Intense romantic love uses subconscious survival circuits in the brain / Lucy L. Brown -- Human sexual orientation is strongly influenced by biological factors / David J. Linden -- Deep down, you are a scientist / Yael Niv -- Studying monkey brains can teach us about advertising / Michael Platt -- Beauty matters in ways we know and in ways we don't / Anjan Chatterjee -- "Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wants" / Scott M. Sternson -- The brain is overrated / Asif A. Ghazanfar -- Dopamine made you do it / Terrence Sejnowski -- The human brain, the true creator of everything, cannot be simulated by any Turing machine / Miguel A. L. Nicolelis -- There is no principle that prevents us from eventually building machines that think / Michael D. Mauk |
| Subject |
Brain -- Popular works.
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Brain. (DNLM)D001921
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| Genre/Form |
Popular Works. (DNLM)D020496
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| Added Author |
Linden, David J., 1961- editor.
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| ISBN |
0300225547 hardcover |
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9780300225549 hardcover |
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