Primer: Our Human Brain Was Not Designed All at Once by a Genius Inventor on a Blank Sheet of Paper
David J. Linden
Science Is an Ongoing Process, Not a Belief System
William B. Kristan, Jr., and Kathleen A. French
Genetics Provides a Window on Human Individuality
Jeremy Nathans 19
Though the Brain Has Billions of Neurons, Wiring It All Up MayDepend upon Very Simple Rules
Alex L. Kolodkin
From Birth Onward, Our Experience of the World Is Dominated by the Brain’s Continual Conversation with Itself
Sam Wang
Children’s Brains Are Different
Amy Bastian
Your Twelve-Year-Old Isn’t Just Sprouting New Hair but Is AlsoForming (and Being Formed by) New Neural Connections
Linda Wilbrecht
How We Use Our Brain Can Change Its Basic Structural Organization
Melissa Lau and Hollis Cline
Tool Use Can Instantly Change the Brain
Alison Barth 60
Life Experiences and Addictive Drugs Change Your Brain in Similar Ways
Julie Kauer
Like It or Not, the Brain Grades on a Curve
Indira M. Raman
The Brain Achieves Its Computational Power through a Massively Parallel Architecture
Liqun Luo
The Brain Harbors Many Neurotransmitters
Solomon H. Snyder
The Eye Knows What Is Good for Us
Aniruddha Das
You Have a Superpower—It’s Called Vision
Charles E. Connor
The Sense of Taste Encompasses Two Roles: Conscious Taste Perception and Subconscious Metabolic Responses
Paul A. S. Breslin
It Takes an Ensemble of Strangely Shaped Nerve Endings to Build a Touch
David D. Ginty
The Bane of Pain Is Plainly in the Brain
Allan Basbaum
Time’s Weird in the Brain—That’s a Good Thing, and Here’s Why
Marshall G. Hussain Shuler and Vijay M. K. Namboodiri
Electrical Signals in the Brain Are Strangely Comprehensible
David Foster
A Comparative Approach Is Imperative for the Understanding of Brain Function
Cynthia F. Moss
The Cerebellum Learns to Predict the Physics of Our Movements
Scott T. Albert and Reza Shadmehr
Neuroscience Can Show Us a New Way to Rehabilitate Brain Injury: The Case of Stroke
John W. Krakauer
Almost Everything You Do Is a Habit
Adrian M. Haith
Interpreting Information in Voice Requires Brain Circuits for Emotional Recognition and Expression
Darcy B. Kelley
Mind Reading Has Emerged at Least Twice in the Course of Evolution
Gül Dölen
We Are Born to Help Others
Peggy Mason 201
Intense Romantic Love Uses Subconscious Survival Circuits in the Brain
Lucy L. Brown
Human Sexual Orientation Is Strongly Influenced by Biological Factors
David J. Linden
Deep Down, You Are a Scientist
Yael Niv
Studying Monkey Brains Can Teach Us about Advertising
Michael Platt
Beauty Matters in Ways We Know and in Ways We Don’t
Anjan Chatterjee
“Man Can Do What He Wants, but He Cannot Will What He Wants”
Scott M. Sternson
The Brain Is Overrated
Asif A. Ghazanfar
Dopamine Made You Do It
Terence Sejnowski
The Human Brain, the True Creator of Everything, Cannot Be Simulated by Any Turing Machine
Miguel A. L. Nicolelis
There Is No Principle That Prevents Us from Eventually Building Machines That Think
Michael D. Mauk
Epilogue