A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness

Vilayanur Ramachandran

192 pages, parution le 14/09/2004

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V. S. Ramachandran is one of our most gifted physicians and expositors, and in this new book he makes vividly real, illuminates, everything he touches on--whether it is phantom limbs and how they can be "cured"; or how the brain can generate illusions and delusions; or synesthesia and its relation to metaphor, creativity and art; or the ultimate questions of how brain relates to mind... belongs to that rare category of scientific book, one as accessible, as transparent, as it is deep."

Oliver Sacks. M.D., author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Uncle Tungsten

How can some people come to believe that their poodle is an impostor? Or see colors in numbers? Internationally acclaimed neuroscientist, V.S. Ramachandran, now shares his unique insight into human consciousness in an entertaining, inspiring, and intellectually dazzling brief tour of the ultimate frontier-the thoughts in our heads.

A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness is made up of five investigations of the greatest mysteries of the brain. The first chapter shows how amputees feel pain in limbs they no longer have as it introduces the great revolution of our age: neuroscience. The second chapter walks through the way what we see determines our thoughts, and demonstrates the counterintuitive point that believing is in fact seeing. The third chapter takes a leap beyond cutting edge science to audaciously set out a general theory of beauty, explaining why, the world over, cultures have fundamentally similar notions of what is attractive. The fourth chapter explores to the bizarre world of synesthetes, people who see colors in numbers, textures in smells, sounds in sights, and flavors in sounds. Finally, V. S. Ramachandran one of the foremost brain researchers in the world today, sums up the implications of the revolution in our understanding of consciousness, to make a fascinating argument about our essential sense of self and its distributed nature.

Take a tour with the perfect guide to one of the strangest places in the natural world, the human mind.

L'auteur - Vilayanur Ramachandran

Vilayanur Ramachandran est le directeur du Center For Brain and Cognition et professeur en psychologie et neurosciences à l'Université de Californie à San Diego (UCSD). Diplômé en médecine de Cambridge, il est aujourd'hui un des plus grands experts mondiaux des neurosciences. Il a écrit Le fantôme intérieur.

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A pain in the brain
Believing is seeing
The artful brain
Purple numbers and sharp cheese
Neuroscience - The new philosophy

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Éditeur(s)	Pi Press
Auteur(s)	Vilayanur Ramachandran
Parution	14/09/2004
Nb. de pages	192
Format	14 x 21,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	330g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780131486867