Our Senses, Rob DeSalle
Our Senses, Rob DeSalle
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Our Senses
An Immersive Experience

Author: Rob DeSalle

Narrator: Jonathan Yen

Unabridged: 12 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/09/2018

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Over the past decade neuroscience has uncovered a wealth of new information about our senses and how they serve as our gateway to the world. This splendidly accessible book explores the most intriguing findings of this research. With infectious enthusiasm, Rob DeSalle illuminates not only how we see, hear, smell, touch, taste, maintain balance, feel pain, and rely on other less familiar senses, but also how these senses shape our perception of the world aesthetically, artistically, and musically.

DeSalle first examines the question of how perception and consciousness are formed in the brain, setting human senses in an evolutionary context. He then investigates such varied themes as supersenses and diminished senses, synesthesia and other cross-sensory phenomena, hemispheric specialization, diseases, anomalies induced by brain injuries, and hallucinations. Focusing on what is revealed about our senses through the extraordinary, he provides unparalleled insights into the unique wonders of the human brain.

About Rob DeSalle

Rob DeSalle is curator at the American Museum of Natural History, where he has curated or cocurated six highly praised exhibitions and leads a research group in the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics. He is the author or coauthor of fifteen books, including Welcome to the Genome. He lives in New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim

I had a lot of trouble getting through this. There was something about the way the information was presented that just bewildered me. Some was terribly obvious, but much was so technical that it was almost meaningless in context. There wasn't much about anything save recent evolution of our senses,......more

Goodreads review by David

Like the ever increasing number of sexes we suddenly recognize, there are more senses than we traditionally credit. Balance, for example, is definitely a sense. And it is part and parcel of our hearing mechanism. Pain is another. And there are combinations of traditional senses – how smell affects t......more

Goodreads review by Brice

We were taught in school that there are five senses: vision, hearing, smell, touch and taste. But that’s an oversimplification. We also have a sense of where our body is oriented in space, which is called propriroception. We can also sense pain, heat and moisture. Some animals can sense stimuli far......more