The Tell-Tale Brain : : a Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes us Human
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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.
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submitted by edwardvielmetti on June 20, 2011, 3:41pm
I haven't read this yet, but there's a review in the NY Review of Books
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/mar/24/can-brain-explain-your-mind/
"Is thinking what the brain does in the way that walking is what the body does? V.S. Ramachandran, director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California, San Diego, thinks the answer is definitely yes. He is a brain psychologist: he scrutinizes the underlying anatomy of the brain to understand the manifest process of the mind. He approvingly quotes Freud’s remark “Anatomy is destiny”—only he means brain anatomy, not the anatomy of the rest of the body."
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New York : W. W. Norton, c2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: xxvi, 357 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
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9780393077827
0393077829
SUBJECTS
Neurosciences.
Neurology.
Brain.