Brain sense the science of the senses and how we process the world around us /

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Main Author: Brynie, Faith Hickman, 1946-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : American Management Association, c2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • Life without touch
  • In from the cold
  • On which side is your bread buttered?
  • Pain and the placebo effect
  • Nematodes, haptics, and brain-machine interfaces
  • It's Valentine's day-- sniff!
  • Do odors dance in your nose?
  • Life without scent
  • The sweaty scent of sex
  • Express train to happiness
  • The bitter truth
  • Coconut crazy
  • Cooking up some brain chemistry
  • How to knit a baby taste bud
  • Expecting what you taste and tasting what you expect
  • The big picture
  • Color and memory
  • Sizing things up
  • On the move
  • Vision and the video game
  • Hearing, left and right
  • Listening and language
  • My ears are ringing
  • Music and the plastic brain
  • Cochlear implant : one man's journey
  • Synesthesia : when senses overlap
  • If this looks like d�ej�a vu, you ain't seen nuthin' yet
  • Feeling a phantom
  • Probabilities and the paranormal
  • Time.