Brainscapes
The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain-and How They Guide You

Special thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for a free, electronic ARC of this novel received in exchange for an honest review. Expected publication date: June 15, 2021 Our brains are a myriad of maps; maps that tell us how to process sensory information, how to relate to the world, how to r......more

Science writing for a lay audience is a challenge because unless you're Stephen Hawking you're tasked with making complicated concepts understandable enough and entertaining enough that your readers don't feel lost or bored and give up. For me, though, Brainscapes errs too far on the side of the ent......more

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The human brain may be the most complex object there is, but that shouldn't put you off from exploring how it works. This easy to read book explains what might be called the geography of the brain; what areas are responsible for processing what our senses take in from our surroundings. The story can......more

The brain definitely has maps, and there are important things to be learned from how the maps are laid out and the nature and quality of the connections between sensory inputs and the neurons that they map to. But most of this is old neuroscience, and beyond that the overall metaphor of the brain as......more