Two heads a graphic exploration of how our brains work with other brains
"Professors and husband-and-wife team Uta and Chris Frith have pioneered major studies of brain disorders throughout their nearly fifty-year career. Here, in Two Heads, their distinguished careers serve as a prism through which they share the compelling story of the birth of neuroscience and their p...
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| Format: | Books Print Book Comic & Graphic Novel |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Scribner,
2022.
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| Edition: | First Scribner hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: In which we meet the Friths
- What your brain is, what it can do, how it works, and all that
- The Friths : who they are, and how they came to be
- How brains know what they know
- Teaching is a tool, copying is an instinct
- Explaining empathy : the latest chapter in the history of neuroscience
- How the brain knows about itself
- Interlude: Doing science properly is difficult
- Think, and think again
- Watching brains at work
- Two heads really are better than one
- When cooperation breeds confusion
- Free will and regret
- In-groups and out-groups
- Reputation matters
- Epilogue: In which the Friths host a party.
