The 1990s were declared the "Decade of the Brain" by former President Bush, and the neuroscience community responded with a host of new investigations and conferences. Discovering the Brain is based on the Institute of Medicine conference, Decade of the Brain: Frontiers in Neuroscience and Brain Research. Discovering the Brain is an easy-to-read discussion of the brain's physical structure and where functions such as language and music appreciation lie. Ackerman examines: How electrical and chemical signals are conveyed in the brain.The mechanisms by which we see, hear, think, and pay attention? "and how a "gut feeling" actually originates in the brain.Learning and memory retention, including parallels to computer memory and what they might tell us about our own mental capacity.
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