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Livewired - The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain (Paperback, Export/Airside - Export/Airside/Ireland)
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Livewired - The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain (Paperback, Export/Airside - Export/Airside/Ireland)
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List price R355
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You Save R71 (20%)
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What does drug withdrawal have in common with a broken heart? Why
is the enemy of memory not time, but other memories? How can a
blind person learn to see with her tongue or a deaf person learn to
hear with his skin? Why did many people in the 1980s mistakenly
perceive book pages to be slightly red in colour? Why is the
world's best archer armless? Might we someday control a robot with
our thoughts, just as we do our fingers and toes? Why do we dream
at night, and what does that have to do with the rotation of the
planet? The answer to these questions is right behind our eyes. The
greatest technology we have ever discovered on this planet is the
three-pound organ carried around in the vault of the skull. This
book is not simply about what the brain is, but what it does. The
magic of the brain is not found in the parts it's made of, but in
the way those parts unceasingly re-weave themselves in an electric,
living fabric. Surf the leading edge of neuroscience atop the
anecdotes and metaphors that have made Eagleman one of the best
scientific translators of our generation. Covering decades of
research to the present day, Livewired also presents new
discoveries from Eagleman's own laboratory, from synaesthesia to
dreaming to wearable neurotech devices that revolutionize how we
think about the senses.
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