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Think Tank: Forty Neuroscientists Explore the Biological Roots of Human Experience |
David J. Linden
Yale University Press
Think Tank: Forty Neuroscientists Explore the Biological Roots of Human Experience
Time’s Weird in the Brain—That’s a Good Thing, and Here’s Why
Authors

Marshall G. Hussain Shuler; Vijay M. K. Namboodiri

ARI Id

1667027485932_8614790

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Not Available Free

Pages

135

DOI

10.12987/9780300235470-020

Chapter URL

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.12987/9780300235470-020/html

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Frontmatter
i
Contents
v
Preface
ix
Primer: Our Human Brain Was Not Designed All at Once by a Genius Inventor on a Blank Sheet of Paper
David J. Linden
1
Science Is an Ongoing Process, Not a Belief System
William B. Kristan; Kathleen A. French
9
Genetics Provides a Window on Human Individuality
Jeremy Nathans
19
Though the Brain Has Billions of Neurons, Wiring It All Up May Depend upon Very Simple Rules
Alex L. Kolodkin
26
From Birth Onward, Our Experience of the World Is Dominated by the Brain’s Continual Conversation with Itself
Sam Wang
34
Children’s Brains Are Different
Amy Bastian
40
Your Twelve-Year-Old Isn’t Just Sprouting New Hair but Is Also Forming (and Being Formed by) New Neural Connections
Linda Wilbrecht
45
How You Use Your Brain Can Change Its Basic Structural Organization
Melissa Lau; Hollis Cline
52
Tool Use Can Instantly Rewire the Brain
Alison L. Barth
60
Life Experiences and Addictive Drugs Change Your Brain in Similar Ways
Julie Kauer
66
Like It or Not, the Brain Grades on a Curve
Indira M. Raman
75
The Brain Achieves Its Computational Power through a Massively Parallel Architecture
Liqun Luo
82
The Brain Harbors Many Neurotransmitters
Solomon H. Snyder
88
The Eye Knows What Is Good for Us
Aniruddha Das
97
You Have a Superpower—It’s Called Vision
Charles E. Connor
105
The Sense of Taste Encompasses Two Roles: Conscious Taste Perception and Subconscious Metabolic Responses
Paul A. S. Breslin
110
It Takes an Ensemble of Strangely Shaped Nerve Endings to Build a Touch
David D. Ginty
119
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