Livewired The Inside Story Of The Everchanging Brain Main David Eagleman by David Eagleman 9781838851002, 1838851003 instant download after payment.

An exhilarating tour of the most complex technology in the universe: the human brain

Your brain is remarkable. Sealed inside the black box of your skull, its only connection to the outside world is the signals that travel through your nerves. From these inputs you gain sight, hearing, touch, taste, & more. Change the inputs - for example replacing a loss of hearing with vibrations on your wrist calibrated to the sounds around you - and your brain finds a way to interpret this new input. Your brain can change, rewire and heal, constantly adapting to make sense of the world around you.

The brain is a dynamic, electric, living forest. It is not rigidly fixed but instead constantly modifies its patterns – adjusting to remember, adapting to new conditions, building expertise. Your neural networks are not hardwired but livewired, reconfiguring their circuitry every moment of your life.

Covering decades of research and brand new discoveries from Eagleman's own laboratory, Livewired surfs the leading edge of neuroscience and demonstrates the mind-blowing ways in which the brain works.

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“Vivid … Since the passing of Isaac Asimov, we haven’t had a working scientist like Mr Eagleman, who engages his ideas in such a variety of modes. Livewired reads wonderfully like what a book would be if it were written by Oliver Sacks and William Gibson, sitting on Carl Sagan’s front lawn” – Wall Street Journal

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David Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Stanford University, a Pulitzer-nominated author of eight books and the writer and presenter of the television series The Brain. At night he writes fiction.

@davideagleman | eagleman.com