Creating Mind: How the Brain Works
- ISBN-10
- 0393027465
- ISBN-13
- 9780393027464
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 212
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Author
- John E. Dowling
Description
What makes us human and unique among all creatures is our brain. Conciousness, perception, emotion, memory, learning, language and intelligence all originate in, and depend on, the brain. During the 20th century, our understanding of the brain has revealed many of the mechanisms by which the brain creates mind and consciousness.
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