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Chargement... Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain (édition 2020)par David Eagleman (Auteur)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I read this book, or most of it anyway, a couple of years ago. Would have given it a 3 star at that point, but a recent Scientific American article, "Designing Life", made me want to dig it out again. This time I felt better about it-- it's real, it's happening, there is flexibility and continuity in our brains and senses, and work done to understand this is important. both for bioengineering and for personal life. Yes, the book is maybe over popularized, but I'll try to keep up with this. ( ) The leading erdge of neuroscience is discussed in this explanation of the world of cognitive science and the brain. Recent discoveries and the new ways of looking at the brain are presented in a readable fashion. I found this a fascinating overview of the way the brain works and how we are continuing to discover new aspects of its nature. The human brain has evolved to be exceptionally adaptable, at least for a while. Once the nerve patterns are laid down and much of the capacity has been committed, then we're less able to learn. In the strictest cases, the implications can very from a lifelong accent to not being able to see. I found this whole book fascinating, such that I kept reading it in lieu of my more typical vacation reads. I started off enjoying this book. The breezy first couple of chapters introduced the subject of brain plasticity well, even if it was illustrated with all-too-brief examples and a dearth of comparative analysis. But sixty pages in, those paragraph-long anecdotes about brain research and snippets of case histories had morphed into equally selective descriptions of techno-fixes to compensate for vision and hearing loss. The author is based at Stanford, the academic origin of Silicon Valley, and among the fixes being described most positively are those of the author's own company. This book has the taste and scope of an extended infomercial. There is an interesting factual thread of physiology to follow, but readers will have to pursue it via other sources alongside the self-satisfied and blinkered Californian world-view of the better life (and better humans, too) through technology. I thought I was going to skip through this book. But as a began to read it I gradually became engrossed. On page14, I read "A city is always in flux" and a couple lines later: "Just like cities, brains never reach an end point." So, I was hooked living a life that was invested in cities and their transportation network. How our senses function and their relationship to the brain and what happens if some pieces are missing is well covered. I was interested in the portion of cochlear implants as a sister-in-law was a manufacturers representative on many of these operations; and how people adapt to being able to hear, or to hear again. (not easy in older persons). References to science fiction abound, and how some predictions have been shown valid and others not. Teasing out what memory is was interesting. All in all a good book. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"The magic of the brain is not found in the parts it's made of but in the way those parts unceasingly reweave themselves in an electric living fabric. And there is no more accomplished and accessible guide than renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman to help us understand the nature and changing texture of that fabric. With his hallmark clarity and enthusiasm he reveals the myriad ways that the brain absorbs experience: developing, redeploying, organizing, and arranging the data it receives from the body's own absorption of external stimuli, which enables us to gain the skills, the facilities, and the practices that make us who we are. Eagleman covers decades of the most important research into the functioning of the brain and presents new discoveries from his own research as well: about the nature of synesthesia, about dreaming, and about wearable devices that are revolutionizing how we think about the five human senses. Finally, Livewired is as deeply informative as it is accessible and brilliantly engaging"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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