More Brain Cuttings : Further Explorations of the Mind.
Title:
More Brain Cuttings : Further Explorations of the Mind.
Author:
Zimmer, Carl.
ISBN:
9781935622291
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (88 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the Author -- Preface -- A Body Fit for a Gigantic Brain -- The Genius of Athletes -- Switching on the Happy Rat -- How the Brain Wires Itself -- Past Is Prologue -- Decoding the Smile -- A Yardstick for the Nose -- Love Songs and Cockatoo Dances -- The Silly Putty Brain -- Ringing in the Brain -- Where Pain Lives -- The Trouble with Teens -- A Hundred Trillion Connections -- Consciousness, Bit by Bit -- Selected References.
Abstract:
"The brain unfolds like a flower. The more I have explored neuroscience, the more it has rewarded me with new stories. In 2010, I published Brain Cuttings: Fifteen Journeys Through the Mind. Here are fifteen more journeys. In some pieces, I look at some of the surprising ways in which the brain works. In others, I consider some of the many ways the brain goes wrong. And finally, I try to look at the brain as a whole-how the 100 billion neurons add up to a person's life of the mind, and produce consciousness." -Carl Zimmer.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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