The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human
Language: English
Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 2011
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- Title
- The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human
- Author
- Ramachandran, V. S.
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Publication year
- 2011
- Condition
- like_new
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0393077829
- ISBN 13
- 9780393077827
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No one is better than V. S. Ramachandran at combining minute, careful observation with ingenious experiments and bold, adventurous theorizing. The Tell-Tale Brain is Ramachandran at his best, a profoundly intriguing and compelling guide to the intricacies of the human brain. --Oliver Sacks, author of The Mind s Eye"
Ramachandran is the modern wizard of neuroscience. In The Tell-Tale Brain, we see the genius at work, tackling extraordinary cases, many of which mark turning points in neuroscientific knowledge. We see him hypothesizing, experimenting, failing, having epiphanies, experimenting, succeeding. In this utterly entertaining account, we see how these fascinating cases fit together, and how he uses them to explain, from a Darwinian point of view, how our brains, though evolved from those of other animals, become neurologically distinct and fundamentally human. --Norman Doidge, M.D., author of The Brain That Changes Itself"
Starred Review. A physician (like Oliver Sacks, a neurologist) as well as a researcher, Ramachandran uses his neurology patients' predicaments to inspire inquiries into how we see and know, the origins of language, the mental basis of civilization, how we conceive of and assess art, and how the self is constructed. Always careful to point out when he is speculating rather than announcing research findings, he is also prompt to emphasize why his speculations, or theories, are not just of the armchair variety but can be put to the test because of what neuroscience has already discovered about the active structures of the human brain.
A masterpiece. The best of its kind and beautifully crafted. Alluring story telling, building to a penetrating understanding of what it is to be uniquely human. Ramachandran is the foremost pioneer--the Galileo--of neurocognition.--Allan Snyder, FRS, Director of the Centre for the Mind
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