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Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind - V.S. Ramachandran, Sandra Blakeslee, Oliver Sacks
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780688152475 (0688152473)
Publisher: William Morrow
Pages no: 328
Edition language: English
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Non Fiction, Science, Popular Science, Biology, Health, Medical, Philosophy, Psychology, Medicine, Neuroscience, Brain
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Fascinating stuff. Ramachandran explores the relatively new field of neuroscience, through speculation, hypothesises and some fairly low-tech experimentation – conjuring an image of a brain that perceives reality through complex pathways which can warp reality in strange ways when damaged, revealing...
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The experiments Ramachandran designed to investigate the phantom limb phenomenon (experienced by some people following an amputation) are ingenious and elegant and can fairly be said to have advanced our understanding of how proprioception (our awareness of our body in space) is organised in the hum...
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Paperback: 384 pagesPublisher: Fourth Estate; New Ed edition (6 May 1999)Language EnglishISBN-10: 1857028953ISBN-13: 978-1857028959Wow! what a gem of a book - recommended to me by and cram packed with interesting 'stuff' and headology of myriad ilks. The brain is such an interesting landscape where...
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