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Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain

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We strapped the Vest on him, and now—just like the soldiers in Westworld—he could feel the location of those moving around him. Det bildar en stängd loop där direkt återkoppling följs av fler försök som efterhand blir mer korrekta tills dess att en nära fullständig förståelse är uppnådd. For example, the brain can successfully navigate a changing body and environment, so why can't our things do the same? The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Not only did it have a thorough consolidation of many recent discoveries in neuroscience, but I was pleasantly surprised with a few new hypotheses to which I hadn't yet been exposed.

Tази книга е изключително информативно и вълнуващо пътешествие в може би най-непознатата и необяснима територия - човешкия мозък. We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed.A lot of popular neuroscience books I read regurgitate a psych 101 class for the first third of the book, which is both tedious and often in need of updating (e. You’ll learn just how resilient and flexible our brains can be, and how technology is still nowhere close to being as powerful as them. Det blir då uppenbart att världen utspelar sig inuti våra egna huvuden om än som en representation av den riktiga. For example, you might be able to use feedback from your partner's body to be more in tune with their emotional states via wearable sensory devices.

I was in a constant state of having my jaw on a floor, as this completely changed my way of perceiving what I have inside my head. David Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Stanford University, an internationally bestselling author, and a Guggenheim Fellow.But we know it should be possible, because everyone reading these words is an existence proof: your biology includes 3 pounds of this alien computational material. Because when you stared at the colored figure, your brain realized that greenness had become tied to horizontal and redness to vertical, and so it adjusted to cancel out this strange feature of the world. He is the author of many books, including Livewired, Sum, Incognito, The Brain, and The Runaway Species. Taking the idea further, Eagleman makes us wonder whether a livewired, self-adapting home and electric grid could be right around the corner. Along the way you will meet: a surfing dog, a skateboarding dog, and a bipedal dog; an armless archery champ; people who hate their limbs; a man with no short-term memory; and a woman who forgets nothing.

All of our books are 100% brand new, unread and purchased directly from the publishers in bulk allowing us to pass the huge savings on to you!Somebody could easily insert most of the brain's accomplishments into a new sci-fi novel, and the majority of readers would assume that it's just a fiction, that we can't achieve this within our current bodies. Particularly in the first chapter, the writing was very jerky, suddenly changing topic, even telling half a story then abruptly switching to something else before coming back to the original subject again.

Den nya signalen beter sig inte likadant som den "riktiga" och upplevs till en början som brus för att sedan övergå mer och mer till en upplevelse som liknar den utan hörselskada. For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin. Astonishing visual illusions will make you doubt your own sanity, and the stories will make for excellent fodder for all the cocktail parties you're not attending. With fluid prose and crystal-clear analogies, Eagleman explains the function of the cerebral cortex as a general computing machine that can take any kind of input from environmental sensors — e. Excellent book about the plasticity of the brain -- about how every experience we have changes the brain, and about how the brain maximizes it resources to interpret the data coming in from our senses.Because what actually happened to Matthew was that with intensive rehab, the remaining half of his brain adapted itself to take over the missing functions of the other half. It's also one of the most hopeful books I've ever read, particularly needful in these uncertain times. I’ve enjoyed following David’s projects over the last decade, and as expected, this book did not disappoint. Informationen måste vara viktig, den behöver inte vara relevant för något grundläggande behov men tillräckligt betydelsefull för att en förändring skall vara motiverad.

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