THE BRAIN --- A USER'S GUIDE
by Time Magazine, January 29, 2007
    Cover Story: "A user's guide to the brain" (p5)

      There are "uncharted worlds" inside your head, but science is drawing a "map." A TIME MAGAZINE special section reports what's new.

    TIME Magazine's Mind & Body Special Issue (p55-120)

      1) THE NEW MAP OF THE BRAIN by Jeffrey Kluger (p56-57)

      2) THE MYSTERY OF CONSCIOUSNESS by Steven Pinker (p58-70)

        Pinker is Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard and the author of three books that detail key issues about the brain, The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, and The Blank Slate

          [1] Introduction about the new "science of consciousness" (p58-60)

          [2] The "easy" and "hard" problems (p60-62)

          [3] The brain as machine (p62)

          [4] The illusion of control (p62-65)

          [5] Believing our own lies (p65-66)

          [6] Waves of brain (p66)

          [7] Tackling the hard problem (p69-70)

          [8] Believing our own lies (p65-

        (1) How to Read a Mind insert featuring two sets of brain scans showing (1) that a scanner can spot the difference between a brain recognizing a face and a brain reognizing a place, and (2) that a scanner can document the fact that a brain imagining faces or places lights up the same neurons as actually seeing them.

        (2) An unbridgeable gulf by Colin McGinn (p62)

          McGinn's latest book is Shakespeare's Philosophy

        (3) A Pipe Organ --- "What is consciousness?" by Michael Gazzaniga (p65)

          Gazzaniga directs the SAGE Center for the Study of Mind at the University of California at Santa Barbara

        (4) The last taboo by Bernard Baars (p65)

          Baars is a senior fellow at the Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla, California. His latest book is In the Theater of Consciousness

        (5) A clever robot by Daneil Dennett (p69)

          Dennett's latest book is Breaking the Spell --- Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

      3) HOW THE BRAIN REWIRES ITSELF (p72-79)

        by Sharon Begley's whose latest book is Train Your Brain, Change Your Life

      4) SIX LESSONS FOR HANDLING STRESS (p80-85)

      5) FIVE PATHS TO UNDERSTANDING (p86-89)

      6) TIME TRAVEL IN THE BRAIN --- Essay by Daniel Gilbert and Randy Buckner who ar professors of psychology at Harvard; Gilbert's latest book is Stumbling on Happiness (p91)

      What are you doing when you aren't doing anything at all?

      7) WHAT THE MOUSE BRAIN TELLS US(p93)

        Stunning new images from the brains of mice offer insights into the human mind disorders

      8) WHAT DO BABIES KNOW? by Michael Brunton of the University of Manchester (p94-95)

        "Constructivism" = the theory that babies construct a model of the world from scratch.

        "Nativism" = the theory that baby's brains are hardwired with a primitive grasp of language, mathematics and the physical world.

      9) WHO SHOULD READ YOUR MIND by Francine Russo (p96-101)

      10) HOW TO CHANGE A PERSONALITY by Francine Russo (p101)

        Drugs and implants can be used for more than treating brain disorders. But there are limits!

      10) THE FLAVOR OF MEMORIES by Michael D. Lemonick and reported by Dan Cray of Los Angeles (p102-104)

      11) THE GIFT OF MIMICRY by Madeleine Nash (p108-113)

      "Mirror neurons will do for psychology what DNA did for biology."
      quote by Vilayanur Ramachandran of the University of California at San Diego

      12) MARKETING TO YOUR MIND by Alice Park (p114-115)

      13) HOW WE MAKE LIFE-AND-DEATH DECISIONS (p116)

      14) THE POWER OF HOPE by Scott Haig, M.D. (p118-119)

      15) TRICKS OF THE EYE AND LIMITS OF THE BRAIN by Jeremy Caplan (p120)

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