Big Brain: The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence
Language: English
Published by Palgrave Macmillan, Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A., 2009
Series: Book 2 of 24 - MacSci
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"Reconstructing the brain of early human relatives who walked the plains of Africa 10,000 years ago leads Lynch and Granger to new discoveries of how our brains function." Looks at how memory gets encoded into the brain, how age and disease affect memory, how we perceive, act, and communicate, and how we might enhance the brain's functions.viii+259 pages, Appendix, Bibliography, Index. Published @ $16.95.
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- Title
- Big Brain: The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence
- Author
- Lynch, Gary;Granger, Richard
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan, Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.
- Publication year
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1403979790
- ISBN 13
- 9781403979797
- Edition
- First Paper
- Dimensions
- 6x9.25
- Series
- Book 2 of 24: MacSci
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In this groundbreaking look at the evolution of our brains, eminent neuroscientists Gary Lynch and Richard Granger uncover the mysteries of the outsize intelligence of our ancestors, who had bigger brains than humans living today. Weaving together history, science, and the latest theories of artificial intelligence, Lynch and Granger demystify the complexities of our brains, and show us how our memory, cognition, and intelligence actually function, as well as what mechanisms in the brain can potentially be enhanced, improving on the current design. Author of The Emotional Brain, Joseph LeDoux praised it as "provocative and fascinating," and, writing in the New Scientist, Willian Calvin called it "a popular account of how brains enlarge, in both evolutionary and developmental terms" and "a much needed book."
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About the Author
Richard Granger is W.H. Neukom Distinguished Professor of Computational Science and of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth. He has been the principal architect of a series of advanced computational systems for military, commercial and medical applications, and co-inventor of FDA-approved devices and drugs. He is a consultant, co-founder, and board member of numerous technology corporations such as Thuris Corporation and Cortex Pharmaceuticals, and government research agencies including the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the National Science Foundation, and the Office of Naval Research. His work has been highlighted in numerous popular press and television features, including recent stories in Forbes, Wired, and on CNN.
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