The tell-tale brain : a neuroscientist's quest for what makes us human / V.S. Ramachandran.

  • Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Date:
[2011], ©2011
  • Books

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Description

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.

Publication/Creation

New York ; London : W.W. Norton, [2011], ©2011.

Physical description

xxvi, 357 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-339) and index.

Contents

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.

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  • LocationStatus
    Medical Collection
    WL300 2011R16t
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 0393077829
  • 9780393077827