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How the brain works.

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York, NY : DK Publishing, 2020Edition: First American editionDescription: 223 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781465489791; 9780241403372; 1465489797Other title: DK how the brain works [Cover title]Subject(s): Brain | Psychology / Neuropsychology

| SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience

DDC classification: 612.82 LOC classification: QP376 | .H758 2020

Contents:

The physical brain -- Brain functions and the senses -- Communication -- Memory, learning, and thinking -- Consciousness and the self -- The brain of the future -- Disorders.

Summary: This book "begins with an introduction to the brain's anatomy, showing you how to tell your motor cortex from your mirror neurons. It moves on to function, explaining how the brain works constantly and unnoticed to regulate heartbeat and breathing, and how it collects information to produce the experiences of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. The chapters that follow cover memory and learning, consciousness and personality, and emotions and communication"--Publisher marketing.

List(s) this item appears in: Neuroscience & mindfulness

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Item type	Current location	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book (Short term)	Shan State Buddhist University Library	English Book Collection	612.82 Ho 18207	Available		EB00018207

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Includes index.

Subtitle from cover.

The physical brain -- Brain functions and the senses -- Communication -- Memory, learning, and thinking -- Consciousness and the self -- The brain of the future -- Disorders.

This book "begins with an introduction to the brain's anatomy, showing you how to tell your motor cortex from your mirror neurons. It moves on to function, explaining how the brain works constantly and unnoticed to regulate heartbeat and breathing, and how it collects information to produce the experiences of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. The chapters that follow cover memory and learning, consciousness and personality, and emotions and communication"--Publisher marketing.

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