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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Preface
Primer: Our Human Brain Was Not Designed All at Once by a Genius Inventor on a Blank Sheet of Paper
Science Is an Ongoing Process, Not a Belief System
Developing, Changing
Genetics Provides a Window on Human Individuality
Though the Brain Has Billions of Neurons, Wiring It All Up May Depend upon Very Simple Rules
From Birth Onward, Our Experience of the World Is Dominated by the Brain’s Continual Conversation with Itself
Children’s Brains Are Different
Your Twelve-Year-Old Isn’t Just Sprouting New Hair but Is Also Forming (and Being Formed by) New Neural Connections
How You Use Your Brain Can Change Its Basic Structural Organization
Tool Use Can Instantly Rewire the Brain
Life Experiences and Addictive Drugs Change Your Brain in Similar Ways
Signaling
Like It or Not, the Brain Grades on a Curve
The Brain Achieves Its Computational Power through a Massively Parallel Architecture
The Brain Harbors Many Neurotransmitters
Anticipating, Sensing, Moving
The Eye Knows What Is Good for Us
You Have a Superpower—It’s Called Vision
The Sense of Taste Encompasses Two Roles: Conscious Taste Perception and Subconscious Metabolic Responses
It Takes an Ensemble of Strangely Shaped Nerve Endings to Build a Touch
The Bane of Pain Is Plainly in the Brain
Time’s Weird in the Brain—That’s a Good Thing, and Here’s Why
Electrical Signals in the Brain Are Strangely Comprehensible
A Comparative Approach Is Imperative for the Understanding of Brain Function
The Cerebellum Learns to Predict the Physics of Our Movements
Neuroscience Can Show Us a New Way to Rehabilitate Brain Injury: The Case of Stroke
Almost Everything You Do Is a Habit
Relating
Interpreting Information in Voice Requires Brain Circuits for Emotional Recognition and Expression
Mind Reading Emerged at Least Twice in the Course of Evolution
We Are Born to Help Others
Intense Romantic Love Uses Subconscious Survival Circuits in the Brain
Human Sexual Orientation Is Strongly Influenced by Biological Factors
Deciding
Deep Down, You Are a Scientist
Studying Monkey Brains Can Teach Us about Advertising
Beauty Matters in Ways We Know and in Ways We Don’t
“Man Can Do What He Wants, but He Cannot Will What He Wants”
The Brain Is Overrated
Dopamine Made You Do It
The Human Brain, the True Creator of Everything, Cannot Be Simulated by Any Turing Machine
There Is No Principle That Prevents Us from Eventually Building Machines That Think
Epilogue
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Index
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