What Should We Do with Our Brain?

Name: What Should We Do with Our Brain?
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ISBN: 9780823229536

ISBN-10: 082322953X

ISBN-13: 9780823229536

Edition: 3rd 2008

Authors: Catherine Malabou, Sebastian Rand, Marc Jeannerod

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Recent neuroscience, in replacing the old model of the brain as a single centralized locus of control, has emphasized a feature of the brain called plasticity, whereby our brain develops and changes throughout an entire lifetime. Through this plasticity, our brain exists as a historical product; it develops in interaction with the environment, through human experience. Hence there is a thin frontier between the organization of the nervous system and the political and social organization conditioning and conditioned by that experience. The new way of speaking about the brain is a mirror image of the capitalist world in which we now live. "Plasticity," in connection with such an image, can…

Book details

List price: $27.00
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication date: 10/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 120
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.27" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English