Think Tank : Forty Neuroscientists Explore the Biological Roots of Human Experience.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Primer: Our Human Brain Was Not Designed All at Once by a Genius Inventor on a Blank Sheet of Paper David J. Linden -- Science Is an Ongoing Process, Not a Belief System William B. Kristan, Jr., and Kathleen A. French -- DEVELOPING, CHANGING -- Genetics Provides a Window on Human Individuality Jeremy Nathans -- Though the Brain Has Billions of Neurons, Wiring It All Up May Depend upon Very Simple Rules Alex L. Kolodkin -- From Birth Onward, Our Experience of the World Is Dominated by the Brain's Continual Conversation with Itself Sam Wang -- Children's Brains Are Different Amy Bastian -- Your Twelve-Year-Old Isn't Just Sprouting New Hair but Is Also Forming (and Being Formed by) New Neural Connections Linda Wilbrecht -- How You Use Your Brain Can Change Its Basic Structural Organization Melissa Lau and Hollis Cline -- Tool Use Can Instantly Rewire the Brain Alison L. Barth -- Life Experiences and Addictive Drugs Change Your Brain in Similar Ways Julie Kauer -- SIGNALING -- Like It or Not, the Brain Grades on a Curve Indira M. Raman -- The Brain Achieves Its Computational Power through a Massively Parallel Architecture Liqun Luo -- The Brain Harbors Many Neurotransmitters Solomon H. Snyder -- ANTICIPATING, SENSING, MOVING -- The Eye Knows What Is Good for Us Aniruddha Das -- You Have a Superpower-It's Called Vision Charles E. Connor -- The Sense of Taste Encompasses Two Roles: Conscious Taste Perception and Subconscious Metabolic Responses Paul A. S. Breslin -- It Takes an Ensemble of Strangely Shaped Nerve Endings to Build a Touch David D. Ginty -- The Bane of Pain Is Plainly in the Brain Allan Basbaum -- Time's Weird in the Brain-That's a Good Thing, and Here's Why Marshall G. Hussain Shuler and Vijay M. K. Namboodiri.

Electrical Signals in the Brain Are Strangely Comprehensible David Foster -- A Comparative Approach Is Imperative for the Understanding of Brain Function Cynthia F. Moss -- The Cerebellum Learns to Predict the Physics of Our Movements Scott T. Albert and Reza Shadmehr -- Neuroscience Can Show Us a New Way to Rehabilitate Brain Injury: The Case of Stroke John W. Krakauer -- Almost Everything You Do Is a Habit Adrian M. Haith -- RELATING -- Interpreting Information in Voice Requires Brain Circuits for Emotional Recognition and Expression Darcy B. Kelley -- Mind Reading Emerged at Least Twice in the Course of Evolution Gül Dölen -- We Are Born to Help Others Peggy Mason -- Intense Romantic Love Uses Subconscious Survival Circuits in the Brain Lucy L. Brown -- Human Sexual Orientation Is Strongly Influenced by Biological Factors David J. Linden -- DECIDING -- Deep Down, You Are a Scientist Yael Niv -- Studying Monkey Brains Can Teach Us about Advertising Michael Platt -- Beauty Matters in Ways We Know and in Ways We Don't Anjan Chatterjee -- "Man Can Do What He Wants, but He Cannot Will What He Wants" Scott M. Sternson -- The Brain Is Overrated Asif A. Ghazanfar -- Dopamine Made You Do It Terrence Sejnowski -- The Human Brain, the True Creator of Everything, Cannot Be Simulated by Any Turing Machine Miguel A. L. Nicolelis -- There Is No Principle That Prevents Us from Eventually Building Machines That Think Michael D. Mauk -- Epilogue -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

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