Brainscapes: the warped, wondrous maps written in your brain--and how they guide you - rebecca schwarzlose

A profoundly illuminating account of how the brain works .

Rebecca Schwarzlose is a neuroscientist with a novelists literary flair.

--Cass R.

Sunstein, author of Too Much Information A path-breaking journey into the brain, showing how perception, thought, and action are products of maps etched into your gray matter--and how technology can use them to read your mind.

Your brain is a collection of maps.

That is no metaphor: scrawled across your brains surfaces are actual maps of the sights, sounds, and actions that hold the key to your survival.

Scientists first began uncovering these maps over a century ago, but we are only now beginning to unlock their secrets--and comprehend their profound impact on our lives.

Brain maps distort and shape our experience of the world, support complex thought, and make technology-enabled mind reading a modern-day reality, which raises important questions about what is real, what is fair, and what is private.

They shine a light on our past and our possible futures.

In the process, they invite us to view ourselves from a startling new perspective.

​ In Brainscapes, Rebecca Schwarzlose combines unforgettable real-life stories, cutting-edge research, and vivid illustrations to reveal brain maps surprising lessons about our place in the world--and about the worlds place within us.

A profoundly illuminating account of how the brain works .

Rebecca Schwarzlose is a neuroscientist with a novelists literary flair.

--Cass R.

Sunstein, author of Too Much Information A path-breaking journey into the brain, showing how perception, thought, and action are products of maps etched into your gray matter--and how technology can use them to read your mind.

Your brain is a collection of maps: detailed representations, scrawled across your brains surfaces, of the sights, sounds, and actions that hold the key to your survival.

Although scientists began discovering these maps over a century ago, we are only now beginning to unlock their secrets--and comprehend their profound impact on our lives.

Brain maps distort and shape our experience of the world, support complex thought, and make technology-enabled mind reading a modern-day reality.

They shine a light on our past and our possible futures.

In the process, they invite us to view ourselves from a startling new perspective.

In Brainscapes, Rebecca Schwarzlose combines unforgettable real-life stories, cutting-edge research, and vivid illustrations to revea.