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How the brain works : the facts visually explained. DK Publishing, Inc

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: New York, NY : DK Publishing, 2020Edition: First American editionDescription: 223 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781465489791
  • 1465489797
Other title:
  • DK how the brain works [Cover title]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 612.82
LOC classification:
  • QP 376 H866 2020
Contents:
The physical brain -- Brain functions and the senses -- Communication -- Memory, learning, and thinking -- Consciousness and the self -- The brain of the future -- Disorders.
Summary: This book "begins with an introduction to the brain's anatomy, showing you how to tell your motor cortex from your mirror neurons. It moves on to function, explaining how the brain works constantly and unnoticed to regulate heartbeat and breathing, and how it collects information to produce the experiences of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. The chapters that follow cover memory and learning, consciousness and personality, and emotions and communication"--Publisher marketing.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) QP 376 H866 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000165182

Includes index.

Subtitle from cover.

The physical brain -- Brain functions and the senses -- Communication -- Memory, learning, and thinking -- Consciousness and the self -- The brain of the future -- Disorders.

This book "begins with an introduction to the brain's anatomy, showing you how to tell your motor cortex from your mirror neurons. It moves on to function, explaining how the brain works constantly and unnoticed to regulate heartbeat and breathing, and how it collects information to produce the experiences of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. The chapters that follow cover memory and learning, consciousness and personality, and emotions and communication"--Publisher marketing.

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