Description |
343 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents |
A window to the brain -- Losing consciousness -- Seeing the brain speak -- If language is left, what's right? -- The problems with paying attention -- The personality of the lowly neuron -- The what and where of memory -- How are memories made? -- What's up front -- When things go wrong with thought and mood -- Tuning up the brain by pruning -- Acquiring and reacquiring language -- Taking apart the visual image -- How the brain subdivides language -- Why can we read so well? -- Stringing things together in novel ways -- Deep in the temporal lobe, just across from the brain stem -- In search of the narrator. |
Note |
"A William Patrick book." |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-296) and index. |
Subject |
Brain.
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Consciousness.
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Brain -- Surgery.
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Epilepsy -- Surgery.
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Added Author |
Ojemann, George A.
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ISBN |
0201632179 |
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0201483378 paperback |
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