In Brainscapes, Rebecca Schwarzlose combines unforgettable real-life stories, cutting-edge research, and vivid illustrations to reveal brain maps’ surprising lessons about our place in the world-and about the world’s place within us. In the process, they invite us to view ourselves from a startling new perspective. They shine a light on our past and our possible futures. Brain maps distort and shape our experience of the world, support complex thought, and make technology-enabled mind reading a modern-day reality. It’s about miracles, and it’s a complete inspiration. Brainscapes is a profoundly illuminating account of how the brain worksand of how the maps within our heads determine what we see, recognize, remember, and feel. In Brainscapes, Rebecca Schwarzlose combines unforgettable real-life stories, cutting-edge research, and vivid illustrations to reveal brain maps’ surprising lessons about our place in the worldand about the world’s place within us. Although scientists began discovering these maps over a century ago, we are only now beginning to unlock their secrets-and comprehend their profound impact on our lives. Rebecca Schwarzlose is a neuroscientist with a novelist's literary flair. Your brain is a collection of maps: detailed representations, scrawled across your brain’s surfaces, of the sights, sounds, and actions that hold the key to your survival. Sunstein, author of Too Much InformationĪ path-breaking journey into the brain, showing how perception, thought, and action are products of maps etched into your gray matter-and how technology can use them to read your mind. and served as chief editor of the scholarly journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences. It was supported by a grant from the Alfred P. Rebecca Schwarzlose is a cognitive neuroscientist studying the developing brain at Washington University in Saint Louis. Rebecca Schwarzlose is a neuroscientist with a novelist's literary flair.”-Cass R. Schwarzlose’s highly readable new book, Brainscapes, goes deep on those maps, illuminating our brains in the process. and served as the editor of the scholarly journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences for three years. “A profoundly illuminating account of how the brain works. Rebecca Schwarzlose is a cognitive neuroscientist studying the developing brain at Washington University in Saint Louis.

Brainscapes by Rebecca Schwarzlose