Selected References

A Body Fit for a Gigantic Brain

FEDRIGO O., PFEFFERLE A.D., BABBITT C.C., HAYGOOD R., WALL C.E., & WRAY G.A. (2011). A Potential Role for Glucose Transporters in the Evolution of Human Brain Size. Brain, Behavior, and Evolution. In press. doi: 10.1159/000329852

The Genius of Athletes

BAUMEISTER, J., REINECKE, K., LIESEN, H., & WEISS, M. (2008). Cortical activity of skilled performance in a complex sports related motor task. European Journal of Applied Physiology, 104(4), 625–631. doi:10.1007/s00421-008-0811-x

Switching on the Happy Rat

ZHANG, T.-Y., & MEANEY, M.J. (2010). Epigenetics and the Environmental Regulation of the Genome and Its Function. Annual Review of Psychology, 61(1), 439–466. doi:10.1146/annurev.psych.60.110707.163625

How the Brain Wires Itself

SHEN, K., & SCHEIFFELE, P. (2010). Genetics and Cell Biology of Building Specific Synaptic Connectivity. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 33(1), 473–507. doi:10.1146/annurev.neuro.051508.135302

Past Is Prologue

KLEIN, S.B., ROBERTSON, T.E., & DELTON, A.W. (2010). Facing the future: Memory as an evolved system for planning future acts. Memory & Cognition, 38(1), 13–22. doi:10.3758/MC.38.1.13

Decoding the Smile

NIEDENTHAL, P.M., MERMILLOD, M., MARINGER, M., & HESS, U. (2010). The Simulation of Smiles (SIMS) model: Embodied simulation and the meaning of facial expression. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33(06), 417–433. doi:10.1017/S0140525X10000865

A Yardstick for the Nose

YESHURUN, Y., & SOBEL, N. (2010). An Odor is Not Worth a Thousand Words: From Multidimensional Odors to Unidimensional Odor Objects. Annual Review of Psychology, 61(1), 219–241. doi:10.1146/annurev.psych.60.110707.163639

Love Songs and Cockatoo Dances

PATEL, A.D. (2008). Music, Language, and the Brain. New York: Oxford University Press

The Silly Putty Brain

TANG-SCHOMER, M.D., PATEL, A.R., BAAS, P.W., & SMITH, D.H. (2010). Mechanical breaking of microtubules in axons during dynamic stretch injury underlies delayed elasticity, microtubule disassembly, and axon degeneration. The FASEB Journal, 24(5), 1401–1410. doi:10.1096/fj.09-142844

Ringing in the Brain

SCHLEE, W., MUELLER, N., HARTMANN, T., KEIL, J., LORENZ, I., & WEISZ, N. (2009). Mapping cortical hubs in tinnitus. BMC Biology, 7(1), 80. doi:10.1186/1741-7007-7-80

Where Pain Lives

APKARIAN, A.V., HASHMI, J.A., & BALIKI, M.N. (2010). Pain and the brain: Specificity and plasticity of the brain in clinical chronic pain. PAIN, 1–16. doi:10.1016/j.pain.2010.11.010

The Trouble with Teens

CASEY, B.J., JONES, R.M., & HARE, T.A. (2008). The Adolescent Brain. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1124(1), 111–126. doi:10.1196/annals.1440.010

A Hundred Trillion Connections

BASSETT, D.S., & GAZZANIGA, M.S. (2011). Understanding complexity in the human brain. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 1–10. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2011.03.006

Consciousness, Bit by Bit

TONONI, G. (2008) Consciousness as Integrated Information: a Provisional Manifesto. Biological Bulletin, 215: 216–242.