Brainscapes : the warped, wondrous maps written in your brain-and how they guide you /
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.
Rebecca Schwarzlose.
- viii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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"--