"The magic of the brain is not found in the parts it's made of but in the way those parts unceasingly reweave themselves in an electric living fabric. And there is no more accomplished and accessible guide than renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman to help us understand the nature and changing texture of that fabric. With his hallmark clarity and enthusiasm he reveals the myriad ways that the brain absorbs experience: developing, redeploying, organizing, and arranging the data it receives from the body's own absorption of external stimuli, which enables us to gain the skills, the facilities, and the practices that make us who we are. Eagleman covers decades of the most important research into the functioning of the brain and presents new discoveries from his own research as well: about the nature of synesthesia, about dreaming, and about wearable devices that are revolutionizing how we think about the five human senses. Finally, Livewired is as deeply informative as it is accessible and brilliantly engaging"--
Table of Contents
1 The Delicate Pink Magisterium
3 (14)
The Child with Half a Brain
Life's Other Secret
If You're Missing the Tool, Create It
An Ever-Changing System
2 Just Add World
17 (9)
How to Grow a Good Brain
Experience Necessary
Nature's Great Gamble
3 The Inside Mirrors the Outside
26 (25)
The Case of the Silver Spring Monkeys
The Afterlife of Lord Horatio Nelson's Right Arm
Timing Is Everything
Colonization Is a Full-Time Business
The More the Better
Blindingly Fast
What Does Dreaming Have to Do with the Rotation of the Planet?
As Outside, So Inside
4 Wrapping Around the Inputs
51 (58)
The Planet- Winning Technology of the Potato Head
Sensory Substitution
The One-Trick Pony
Eye Tunes
Good Vibrations
Enhancing the Peripherals
Conjuring a New Sensorium
Imagining a New Color
Are You Ready for a New Sensation?
5 How to Get a Better Body
109 (30)
Will the Real Doc Ock Please Raise His Hands?
No Standard Blueprints
Motor Babbling
The Motor Cortex, Marshmallows, and the Moon
Self-Control
Toys Are Us
One Brain, Infinite Body Plans
6 Why Mattering Matters
139 (20)
The Motor Cortices of Perlman Versus Ashkenazy
Fashioning the Landscape
Dogged
Allowing the Real Estate to Change
The Brain of a Digital Native
7 Why Love Knows Not Its Own Depth Until the Hour of Separation
159 (15)
A Horse in the River
Making Invisible the Expected
The Difference Between What You Thought Would Happen and What Actually Happened
Going Toward the Light. Or Sugar. Or Data
Adjusting to Expect the Unexpected
8 Balancing on the Edge of Change
174 (18)
When Haiti Disappears
How to Spread Drug Dealers Evenly
How Neurons Expand Their Social Network
The Benefits of a Good Death
Is Cancer an Expression of Plasticity Gone Awry?
Saving the Brain Forest
9 Why Is It Harder to Teach Old Dogs New Tricks?
192 (15)
Born as Many
The Sensitive Period
Doors Close at Different Rates - Still Changing After All These Years
10 Remember When
207 (25)
Talking to Your Future Self
The Enemy of Memory Is Not Time; It's Other Memories
Parts of the Brain Teach Other Parts
Beyond Synapses
Daisy-Chaining a Range of Timescales
Many Kinds of Memory
Modified by History
11 The Wolf and the Mars Rover
232 (9)
12 Finding Otzi's Long-Lost Love
241 (6)
We Have Met the Shape-Shifters, and They Are Us
Acknowledgments 247 (2)
Notes 249 (38)
Further Reading 287 (12)
Index 299
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David Eagleman
Jahr:
2020
Verlag:
New York, Pantheon Books
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ISBN:
978-0-307-90749-3
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0-307-90749-X
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First edition, 310 Seiten
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Sprache:
Englisch
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