Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts

From Barnes & NobleIn just a few decades, science has transformed consciousness from a topic for new age savants to a subject for constructive research. One of the chief exponents of this development is French cognitive psychologist Stanislas Delzene (Reading in the Brain), the author of this book. His Consciousness and the Brain offers dazzling proof of the complexity of cranial activities even as it serious undermines our confidence about the infallibility of our perceptions. It notes that we only function optimally by suppressing our senses; thus, we are bad witnesses, though we usually don't know it. Dr. Delzene balances this downer with encouraging news about the future prospects of help for brain damage victims.





Publishers Weekly11/25/2013
Probing the links between conscious thought and the intricate networks and neurons that comprise our brains, cognitive psychologist Dehaene (Reading in the Brain) tackles questions of mind-body duality and the relationships between mental activity and the material world that have attracted and perplexed great scientific minds for centuries.