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The Body Has a Mind of Its Own: How Body Maps in Your Brain Help You Do (Almost) Everything Better (Paperback)
The Body Has a Mind of Its Own How Body Maps in Your Brain Help You Do Everything Better - Almost - Paperback
Author: Sandra Blakeslee
This popular synthesis of a technical field in neuroscience explores how the brain constructs its models of the body. Entangled with the perception of self, these maps are multitudinous and dynamic, as experimenters have discovered. The Blakeslees ground the idea of mental maps in the work of Wilder Penfield, a 1940s researcher whose probes on t...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780812975277
ISBN-10: 0812975278
Publication Date: 9/9/2008
Pages: 240
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Publisher: Random House
Book Type: Paperback
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