The tell-tale brain : a neuroscientist's quest for what makes us human / V.S. Ramachandran.
2011
616.8 R165t 2011
Available at 2nd (Main) Floor
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Title
The tell-tale brain : a neuroscientist's quest for what makes us human / V.S. Ramachandran.
Author
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
0393077829 (hbk.)
9780393077827
9780393077827
Imprint
New York : W.W. Norton, c2011.
Language
English
Description
xxvi, 357 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
616.8 R165t 2011
System Control No.
(OCoLC)601105735
(OCoLC)601105735
(OCoLC)601105735
Summary
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-339) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
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