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"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