Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the BrainHarper Collins, 15 nov 2011 - 313 pagina's “Big questions are Gazzaniga’s stock in trade.” “Gazzaniga is one of the most brilliant experimental neuroscientists in the world.” “Gazzaniga stands as a giant among neuroscientists, for both the quality of his research and his ability to communicate it to a general public with infectious enthusiasm.” The author of Human, Michael S. Gazzaniga has been called the “father of cognitive neuroscience.” In his remarkable book, Who’s in Charge?, he makes a powerful and provocative argument that counters the common wisdom that our lives are wholly determined by physical processes we cannot control. His well-reasoned case against the idea that we live in a “determined” world is fascinating and liberating, solidifying his place among the likes of Oliver Sacks, Antonio Damasio, V.S. Ramachandran, and other bestselling science authors exploring the mysteries of the human brain. |
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... nerve impulse travels to Japan faster than it can travel to that monkey's own leg! Closer to home, take a look at your dinner. If you are lucky, tonight you might have a locally grown salad with sliced pears from Chile and an amazingly ...
... nerves grow out to the limb specifically or did the nerves grow out randomly and then through the use of the limb become adapted to be limb neurons ? He had found that transplanted salamander limbs would become innervated and capable of ...
... nerve regeneration, persisted for years without improvement. 9 Sperry set out to investigate functional plasticity in rats by seeing what the behavior effects were of changing nerve connections. He switched the nerve connections between ...
... nerve circuits was the result of a highly specific genetic coding for nerve contacts. He performed dozens of clever experiments to make his point. In one, he simply took a frog and surgically turned the eye upside down. Afterwards, when ...
... nerve cells is under genetic control. But there was a problem with a pure nativist view that the mind possesses ideas that are only inborn and not derived from external sources. The limits on this idea had been foreshadowed by Hebb ...
Inhoudsopgave
Chapter Two The Parallel and Distributed Brain | |
Chapter Three The Interpreter | |
Chapter Four Abandoning the Concept of Free Will | |
Chapter Five The Social Mind | |
Chapter Six We Are the | |
Chapter Seven An Afterword | |
Index | |
Also by Michael S Gazzaniga | |
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