Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain

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My only slight doubt about this one is that I was a person who did this at the time, but I never noticed the effect, nor did I hear of it from anyone else. Taking the idea further, Eagleman makes us wonder whether a livewired, self-adapting home and electric grid could be right around the corner. Informationen måste vara viktig, den behöver inte vara relevant för något grundläggande behov men tillräckligt betydelsefull för att en förändring skall vara motiverad. Precis som en person utan synskada inte reflekterar över hur fotoner träffar näthinnan i olika mönster och antal utan istället upplever världen som "där ute". Eagleman’s infectious enthusiasm, his use of fascinating anecdotes, and his clear, effortless prose render the secrets of the brain’s adaptability into a truly compelling page-turner.

We work closely with publishers and authors to ensure that we offer the best books on the market for your child. It's a mysterious kind of computational material, an organic three-dimensional textile that adjusts itself to operate with maximum efficiency. You’ll learn just how resilient and flexible our brains can be, and how technology is still nowhere close to being as powerful as them.

Stare at the colored lines for a bit: the red lines for a few seconds, then the green lines, then the red lines again, and then the green lines. He also postulates that the purpose of eye saccades is to refresh the retinal image, as anything that stays still on the retina quickly disappears, due to our brains tuning our perception for not what is there, but what has changed. Det visar sig nämligen att hjärnan är så pass bra på att tolka dessa signaler att till och med nya sinnen kan "kopplas in". Because what actually happened to Matthew was that with intensive rehab, the remaining half of his brain adapted itself to take over the missing functions of the other half.

Till exempel befästs och stagnerar syncentrum i hjärnan väldigt snabbt jämfört med de motoriska delarna som styr olika muskler vilket kan förklaras med att vi hela tiden kommer i kontakt med nya sätt att använda kroppen på. Eagleman peppers the book with stories and examples - my absolute favourite was the way that in the late 70s and early 80s, people thought that the IBM logo on floppy disks had changed from white to red.

He predicts quite compellingly that these new input streams will soon stop feeling like external cues you need to consciously perceive and interpret, but will become part of your normal emotional and perceptual subconscious milieu. Some of you may know that I gave a TED talk a few years ago on how we can leverage the principles of livewiring to feed totally new kinds of data streams into the brain (and we’ve now built specialized hardware with which to do this), and I dive deep and wide on this notion in the book.

Along the way you will meet: a surfing dog, a skateboarding dog, and a bipedal dog; an armless archery champ; people who hate their limbs; a man with no short-term memory; and a woman who forgets nothing. It is not included in promotions available to our main range products, as stated in our terms of service. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.David Eagleman once again takes the infinitely complex brain and explains it in language that a layperson can understand— and more importantly, enjoy.