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Brainscapes : the warped, wondrous maps written in your brain-and how they guide you / Rebecca Schwarzlose.

By: Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021Description: viii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1328949966
  • 9781328949967
Other title:
  • Brain scapes : the warped, wondrous maps written in your brain-and how they guide you
  • Maps written in your brain-and how they guide you
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: BrainscapesDDC classification:
  • 612.8 23
LOC classification:
  • QP376 .S38 2021
Contents:
1. An atlas of you: What is a brain map? -- 2. The tyranny of numbers: Why brain maps exist -- 3. How brain maps determine what we see and feel -- 4. Out of the ether: Brain maps for hearing -- 5. Brain maps and codes for taste and smell -- 6. On the move: Brain maps for action -- 7. Maps in the making: How brain maps develop and adapt -- 8. Knowing again: Brain maps for recognition -- 9. Imagining, remembering, and paying attention with brain maps - 10. Comprehending and communicating with brain maps -- 11. Maps as portals: Mind reading and mind writing with brain maps -- 12. How brain maps weigh us down and how we rise above them.
Summary: "A path-breaking journey into the brain, showing how perception, thought, and action are products of "maps" etched into your gray matter-and how technology can use them to read your mind"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. An atlas of you: What is a brain map? -- 2. The tyranny of numbers: Why brain maps exist -- 3. How brain maps determine what we see and feel -- 4. Out of the ether: Brain maps for hearing -- 5. Brain maps and codes for taste and smell -- 6. On the move: Brain maps for action -- 7. Maps in the making: How brain maps develop and adapt -- 8. Knowing again: Brain maps for recognition -- 9. Imagining, remembering, and paying attention with brain maps - 10. Comprehending and communicating with brain maps -- 11. Maps as portals: Mind reading and mind writing with brain maps -- 12. How brain maps weigh us down and how we rise above them.

"A path-breaking journey into the brain, showing how perception, thought, and action are products of "maps" etched into your gray matter-and how technology can use them to read your mind"-- Provided by publisher.

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