Brainscapes : the warped, wondrous maps written in your brain-and how they guide you / Rebecca Schwarzlose.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schwarzlose, Rebecca, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brain.

Neural networks (Neurobiology).

Physical Description:

viii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Your brain is a collection of maps: actual maps of the sights, sounds, and actions that hold the key to your survival. Scientists first began uncovering these maps more than a century ago, but we are only now beginning to unlock their secrets, and comprehend their profound impact on our lives. Schwarzlose shows how brain maps distort and shape our experience of the world, support complex thought, and make technology-enabled mind reading a modern-day reality. -- adapted from jacket

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Schwarzlose, Rebecca, Brainscapes

ISBN:

9781328949967

1328949966

OCLC:

1159045627

Publisher Number:

40030636107