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The Tell Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human

V. S. Ramachandran

What can strange cases of brain damage and odd quirks tell us about how we see, speak, make art and know ourselves?

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V. S. Ramachandran

Why read it

  • You will see how odd conditions, like phantom limbs and seeing musical tones, reveal how a normal brain works
  • You will be able to follow how a scientist reasons from a puzzling case to a testable idea
  • You will meet bold ideas on what makes humans human, from language and art to self awareness

Who it is for

  • A reader curious about consciousness and the mind body link
  • A student weighing a career in neuroscience
  • Someone who knows a person with autism or a brain injury

Contents

  1. THE TELL-TALE BRAIN
  2. V. S. RAMACHANDRAN
  3. The TELL-TALE BRAIN
  4. V. S. RAMACHANDRAN
  5. PREFACE
  6. THE TELL-TALE BRAIN
  7. INTRODUCTION
  8. CHAPTER 1
  9. Phantom Limbs and Plastic Brains
  10. CHAPTER 2
  11. Seeing and Knowing
  12. CHAPTER 3
  13. Loud Colors and Hot Babes: Synesthesia
  14. CHAPTER 4
  15. The Neurons That Shaped Civilization
  16. CHAPTER 5
  17. Where Is Steven? The Riddle of Autism
  18. CHAPTER 6
  19. The Power of Babble: The Evolution of Language
  20. CHAPTER 7
  21. Beauty and the Brain: The Emergence of Aesthetics
  22. CHAPTER 8
  23. The Artful Brain: Universal Laws
  24. CHAPTER 9
  25. An Ape with a Soul: How Introspection Evolved
  26. EPILOGUE

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