The tell-tale brain a neuroscientist's quest for what makes us human
Ramachandran--the "Marco Polo of neuroscience"--reveals what baffling and extreme case studies can teach us about normal brain function and how it evolved. Among the topics he discusses are synesthesia as a window to creativity and autism as a springboard to understanding self-awareness.
| Main Author: | Ramachandran, V. S. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
W. W. Norton,
c2011.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- No mere ape
- Phantom limbs and plastic brains
- Seeing and knowing
- Loud colors and hot babes : synesthesia
- The neurons that shaped civilization
- Where is Steven? : The riddle of autism
- The power of babble : the evolution of language
- Beauty and the brain : the emergence of aesthetics
- The artful brain : universal laws
- An ape with a soul : how introspection evolved.