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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Ramachandran, V. S.     Subjects     Neurosciences -- Popular works.     Neurology -- Popular works.     Brain -- Popular works.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Ramachandran, V. S.       by title:      The tell-tale brain ...         MARC Display

The tell-tale brain [electronic resource] : a neuroscientist's quest for what makes us human / V.S. Ramachandran. by Ramachandran, V. S. New York : W.W. Norton, c2011. Subjects Neurosciences -- Popular works.   Neurology -- Popular works.   Brain -- Popular works. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=25EDC18A-170F-456D-9BB5-76A117D69267 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=25edc18a-170f-456d-9bb5-76a117d69267&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0044-1/{25EDC18A-170F-456D-9BB5-76A117D69267}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9780393080582 (electronic bk.) 0393080587 (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource (xxvi, 357 pages) : illustrations Edition:  1st ed. Contents:  No mere ape -- Phantom limbs and plastic brains -- Seeing and knowing -- Loud colors and hot babes : synesthesia -- The neurons that shaped civilization -- Where is Steven? : The riddle of autism -- The power of babble : the evolution of language -- Beauty and the brain : the emergence of aesthetics -- The artful brain : universal laws -- An ape with a soul : how introspection evolved. Requests:  0 Summary:  Ramachandran--the "Marco Polo of neuroscience"--reveals what baffling and extreme case studies can teach us about normal brain function and how it evolved. Among the topics he discusses are synesthesia as a window to creativity and autism as a springboard to understanding self-awareness.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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