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The tell-tale brain : a neuroscientist's quest for what makes us human / V.S. Ramachandran.
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Ramachandran, V. S.
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English
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1st ed.
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New York : W.W. Norton, c2011.
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xxvi, 357 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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RC351 .R36 2011
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Summary note
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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Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-339) and index.
Contents
No mere ape
Phantom limbs and plastic brains
Seeing and knowing
Loud colors and hot babes : synesthesia
The neurons that shaped civilization
Where is Steven? : The riddle of autism
The power of babble : the evolution of language
Beauty and the brain : the emergence of aesthetics
The artful brain : universal laws
An ape with a soul : how introspection evolved.
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ISBN
0393077829 (hbk.)
9780393077827 (hbk.)
LCCN
2010044913
OCLC
601105735
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