Your brain is a collection of maps. That is no metaphor: scrawled across your brain's surfaces are actual schematic images of the sights, sounds, and actions that hold the key to your survival.
Scientists first began uncovering these maps over a century ago, but we are only now beginning to unlock their secrets. Our inner cartography distorts and shapes our experience of the world, supporting complex thought, and making technology-enabled mind-reading a reality. The maps in our brain invite us to view ourselves from a startling new perspective.
In Brainscapes, Rebecca Schwarzlose combines unforgettable real-life stories, cutting-edge research, and vivid illustrations to reveal brain maps' surprising lessons about our place in the world - and the world's place within us.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 An Atlas of You: What Is a Brain Map?
- 2 The Tyranny of Numbers: Why Brain Maps Exist
- 3 How Brain Maps Determine What We See and Feel
- 4 Out of the Ether: Brain Maps for Hearing
- 5 Brain Maps and Codes for Taste and Smell
- 6 On the Move: Brain Maps for Action
- 7 Maps in the Making: How Brain Maps Develop and Adapt
- 8 Knowing Again: Brain Maps for Recognition
- 9 Imagining, Remembering, and Paying Attention with Brain Maps
- 10 Comprehending and Communicating with Brain Maps
- 11 Maps as Portals: Mind Reading and Mind Writing with Brain Maps
- 12 How Brain Maps Weigh Us Down and How We Rise Above Them
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
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