How Your Brain Works

Inside the Most Complicated Object in the Known Universe

By: New Scientist

Narrated by: Mark Elstob

In How Your Brain Works, leading neuroscientists and New Scientist introduce the evolution and anatomy of the brain viewed through traits such as memory, emotions, sleep, sensing and perception.

Ever wondered what's going on inside your head? You are your brain. Everything that makes you you, and all your experiences of the world, are somehow conjured up by 1.4 kilograms of grey matter inside your skull. That might seem impossible, but science has advanced so much that we now understand not just its structures and inner workings but also how it can give rise to perception, consciousness, emotions, memories, intelligence, sleep and more.

How Your Brain Works explores the amazing world inside your head. Discover the evolution and anatomy of the brain. Learn how we can peer inside it and watch it at work and how the latest technology can allow us to control our minds and those of others.

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Took a fascinating subject matter and rendered it unbearably boring

Instead of talking about the ways the brain operates, this book describes the mountains of research and cites names of researchers more than it describes the fascinating operations of the brain. I didn't want to hear a history lesson on brain research. Languished through 4 chapters and that's all I could take.

disappointed

I thought I would learn something as to how ou brain works.Howevr I found this extepensive book talking mainly about who said what without giving reasonable neurophysioloc explanations. couldn't listen further, stopped.