Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain

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It was neat to read about how the brain adapts when a limb or a sense is lost or added, and what sorts of possibilities the future holds.

Den nya signalen beter sig inte likadant som den "riktiga" och upplevs till en början som brus för att sedan övergå mer och mer till en upplevelse som liknar den utan hörselskada. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The theme of this book broadly is brain plasticity, highlighting how the brain is actually a general purpose computing machine that would ably use any input presented from birth as long as it consistently predicted something about the outside world. It's no easy feat to make complex topics comprehensible to a layperson and those with no prior knowledge of the subject at hand, but Eagleman does this with considerable aplomb. Särskilt beskriver David Eagleman hur hjärnan har förmågan att tolka komplicerade signaler från sensoriska organ och av dessa ta till vara på den i stunden relevanta informationen.Whilst the ideas are good, there’s not a lot there to use constructively and there’s no mathematical or information theoretical analysis presented to demonstrate learning in a competitive neural substrate. You need to read the book to get the details, but the cause was apparently due to the people handling the disks (on which the logo was made up of a set of white horizontal lines) spent a lot of their time staring at VDUs, which contained lots of horizontal green lines of text. But we know it should be possible, because everyone reading these words is an existence proof: your biology includes 3 pounds of this alien computational material. It is accepted by you that Daunt Books has no control over additional charges in relation to customs clearance.

All of our books are 100% brand new, unread and purchased directly from the publishers in bulk allowing us to pass the huge savings on to you! It's a mysterious kind of computational material, an organic three-dimensional textile that adjusts itself to operate with maximum efficiency. Eagleman also sets himself apart by introducing new, often quite startling theories, as well as making predictions. The book explores and extends the phenomenon of brain plasticity, with the term livewired proposed as a term to supersede plastic.Det blir då uppenbart att världen utspelar sig inuti våra egna huvuden om än som en representation av den riktiga. Somebody could easily insert most of the brain's accomplishments into a new sci-fi novel, and the majority of readers would assume that it's just a fiction, that we can't achieve this within our current bodies. Excellent book about the plasticity of the brain -- about how every experience we have changes the brain, and about how the brain maximizes it resources to interpret the data coming in from our senses.