Connectome
How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are
$39.05
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
26 June 2013
Summary
‘The best lay book on brain science I’ve ever read’, Daniel J Levitin, Wall Street Journal
What really makes us who we are? In this groundbreaking book, pioneering neuroscientist Sebastian Seung shows that our identity does not lie in our genes, but in the connections between our brain cells - our own particular wiring, or ‘connectomes’.
Everything about us - emotions, thoughts, memories - is encoded in these tangled patterns of neural connections, and now Seung and a dedicate…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241951873 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241951879 |
| Author: | Sebastian Seung |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 26 June 2013 |
| Weight: | 288g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 131mm x 24mm |
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With the first-person flavour of James Watson’s Double Helix , Connectome gives a sense of the excitement on the cutting edge of neuroscience
With the first-person flavour of James Watson’s Double Helix, Connectome gives a sense of the excitement on the cutting edge of neuroscience * New Scientist *Witty and exceptionally clear … beautifully explained … the best lay book on brain science I’ve ever read * Wall Street Journal *Seung is about to revolutionise brain science * The Times *
About The Author
Sebastian Seung
Sebastian Seung is Professor of Computational Neuroscience at MIT and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He has made important advances in robotics, neuroscience, neuroeconomics, and statistical physics. His research has been published in leading scientific journals, and also featured in The New York Times, Technology Review, and The Economist.
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