Consciousness And The Brain: Deciphering How The Brain Codes Our Thoughts

Features of Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts

WINNER OF THE 2014 BRAIN PRIZEFrom the acclaimed author of Reading in the Brain and How We Learn a breathtaking look at the new science that can track consciousness deep in the brainHow does our brain generate a conscious thought And why does so much of our knowledge remain unconscious Thanks to clever psychological and brainimaging experiments scientists are closer to cracking this mystery than ever beforeIn this lively book Stanislas Dehaene describes the pioneering work his lab and the labs of other cognitive neuroscientists worldwide have accomplished in defining testing and explaining the brain events behind a conscious state We can now pin down the neurons that fire when a person reports becoming aware of a piece of information and understand the crucial role unconscious computations play in how we make decisions The emerging theory enables a test of consciousness in animals babies and those with severe brain injuriesA joyous exploration of the mind and its thrilling complexities Consciousness and the Brain will excite anyone interested in cuttingedge science and technology and the vast philosophical personal and ethical implications of finally quantifying consciousness