This book provides eloquent support for the idea that spontaneous neuron activity, far from being mere noise, is actually the source of our cognitive abilities.

The goal of this book is to point out the advantages of a multidisciplinary, multistrategied approach to the brain.Part I of Neural Organization provides a detailed introduction to each of the three areas of structure, function, and ...

A great deal of the success of science has rested on its specific methods.

This is a broad, cross cutting, emerging and timely opportunity of interest to individuals, society and humanity in the long term.

Throughout this book all derivations are as detailed and explicit as possible, and everybody with some knowledge of calculus should be able to extract meaningful guidance follow and apply the methods of nonlinear dynamics to their own work ...

"A work of enormous breadth, likely to pleasantly surprise both general readers and experts."—New York Times Book Review This revolutionary book provides fresh answers to long-standing questions of human origins and consciousness.

In Phantoms in the Brain, Dr. Ramachandran recounts how his work with patients who have bizarre neurological disorders has shed new light on the deep architecture of the brain, and what these findings tell us about who we are, how we ...

Open the book and find: The architecture of words How linguistics categorizes into grammatical categories What makes a conversation tick The social variables that affect language How linguistic archeology connects Sanskrit and English Why ...

This is a great example of where research in very different disciplines touches to create a new emerging area of research.

This anniversary edition offers a new preface by the authors that puts the book in the context of current research. This approach influenced a generation of researchers.