Screen LibraryThink tank : forty neuroscientists explore the biological roots of human experience /
Neuroscientist David J. Linden approached leading brain researchers and asked each the same question: "What idea about brain function would you most like to explain to the world?" Their responses make up this one-of-a-kind collection of popular science essays that seeks to expand our knowl...
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Yale University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New Haven, CT : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Neuroscientist David J. Linden approached leading brain researchers and asked each the same question: "What idea about brain function would you most like to explain to the world?" Their responses make up this one-of-a-kind collection of popular science essays that seeks to expand our knowledge of the human mind and its possibilities. The contributors, whose areas of expertise include human behavior, molecular genetics, evolutionary biology, and comparative anatomy, address a host of fascinating topics ranging from personality to perception, to learning, to beauty, to love and sex. The manner |
| Carrier Form: | x, 296 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780300225549 0300225547 |
| Index Number: | QP376 |
| CLC: | R338.2-49 |
| Call Number: | R338.2-49/T443 |
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Primer : our human brain was not designed all at once by a genius inventor on a blank sheet of paper / Science is an ongoing process, not a belief system / Developing, changing. Genetics provides a window on human individuality / Though the brain has billions of neurons, wiring it all up may depend upon very simple rules / From birth onward, our experience of the world is dominated by the brain's continual conversation with itself / Children's brains are different / |