The Tell-Tale Brain
Subtitle: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human
Publisher: Norton; W.W. Norton
Published: 2011
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780393077827
Description: Ramachandran--the "Marco Polo of neuroscience"--reveals what baffling and extreme case studies can teach us about normal brain function and how it evolved. Among the topics he discusses are synesthesia as a window to creativity and autism as a springboard to understanding self-awareness.