Contents -- Preface: Falling in Love with Science -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE: TOUCH -- 1 Life Without Touch -- 2 In from the Cold -- 3 On Which Side Is Your Bread Buttered? -- 4 Pain and the Placebo Effect -- 5 Nematodes, Haptics, and Brain-Machine Interfaces -- PART TWO: SMELL -- 6 It's Valentine's Day... Sniff! -- 7 Do Odors Dance in Your Nose? -- 8 Life Without Scent -- 9 The Sweaty Scent of Sex -- 10 Express Train to Happiness -- PART THREE: TASTE -- 11 The Bitter Truth -- 12 Coconut Crazy -- 13 Cooking Up Some Brain Chemistry -- 14 How to Knit a Baby Taste Bud -- 15 Expecting What You Taste and Tasting What You Expect -- PART FOUR: VISION -- 16 The Big Picture -- 17 Color and Memory -- 18 Sizing Things Up -- 19 On the Move -- 20 Vision and the Video Game -- PART FIVE: HEARING -- 21 Hearing, Left and Right -- 22 Listening and Language -- 23 My Ears Are Ringing -- 24 Music and the Plastic Brain -- 25 Cochlear Implant: One Man's Journey -- PART SIX: BEYOND THE BIG FIVE -- 26 Synesthesia: When Senses Overlap -- 27 If This Looks Like Déjà Vu, You Ain't Seen Nuthin' Yet -- 28 Feeling a Phantom -- 29 Probabilities and the Paranormal -- 30 Time -- Appendix: The Brain and the Nervous System-A Primer -- Notes -- Recommended Resources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.