http://neurodudes.com/2006/09/01/two-neural-prosthetics-papers/ at the intersection of neuroscience and AI. Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:42:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://neurodudes.com/2006/09/01/two-neural-prosthetics-papers/#comment-434069 neurodudes » Blog Archive » Your Brain Is A Cartographer Wed, 12 Sep 2007 01:26:41 +0000 http://neurodudes.com/?p=317#comment-434069 [...] You’ll recognize the name Sandra Blakeslee from her co-authorship with Jeff Hawkins in On Intelligence and with V.S. Ramachandran in Phantoms in the Brain. This new book continues in the spirit of illustrating the broader significance of surprising findings in neuroscience. It covers a lot of recent neuroscience research, including mirror neurons, place cells and grid cells, the insular cortex and neuroprosthetics. For anyone looking to get the quick picture of these frontier research areas, this book serves as an excellent primer. It does an excellent job of making connections to socially relevant topics such as the secrets of athletic excellence, underlying causes of eating disorders and the modern obsession with plastic surgery. I have come to believe that neuroscience will eventually concrete explanations for the metaphors we use and the spooky phenomena we believe in but science cannot prove. Along those lines, this book does a great job of establishing plausible connections between underlying brain mechanisms and to auras and out-of-body experiences. [...] [...] You’ll recognize the name Sandra Blakeslee from her co-authorship with Jeff Hawkins in On Intelligence and with V.S. Ramachandran in Phantoms in the Brain. This new book continues in the spirit of illustrating the broader significance of surprising findings in neuroscience. It covers a lot of recent neuroscience research, including mirror neurons, place cells and grid cells, the insular cortex and neuroprosthetics. For anyone looking to get the quick picture of these frontier research areas, this book serves as an excellent primer. It does an excellent job of making connections to socially relevant topics such as the secrets of athletic excellence, underlying causes of eating disorders and the modern obsession with plastic surgery. I have come to believe that neuroscience will eventually concrete explanations for the metaphors we use and the spooky phenomena we believe in but science cannot prove. Along those lines, this book does a great job of establishing plausible connections between underlying brain mechanisms and to auras and out-of-body experiences. [...]

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