Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain

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Because what actually happened to Matthew was that with intensive rehab, the remaining half of his brain adapted itself to take over the missing functions of the other half. This book encapsulates the vast knowledge that goes into neuroscience and the sub-disciplinary fields. g. the brain as an information-maximizing machine; the basis of synesthesia; and the purpose of dreaming (hint: so you don't go blind).You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Informationen måste vara viktig, den behöver inte vara relevant för något grundläggande behov men tillräckligt betydelsefull för att en förändring skall vara motiverad. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

When you look at the black and white lines, you experienced the aftereffect: the horizontal lines were being internally shifted toward the opposite color – red – and vertical toward green.Eagleman also sets himself apart by introducing new, often quite startling theories, as well as making predictions. Taking the idea further, Eagleman makes us wonder whether a livewired, self-adapting home and electric grid could be right around the corner. Eagleman] aims, grandly, to do for the study of the mind what Copernicus did for the study of the stars. I found factual inaccuracies in the book that I know to be inaccurate because there were about my own field of expertise.