Neuroscience

Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system.

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Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
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The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
How the Mind Works
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
Principles of Neural Science

Oliver Sacks
Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous activity of its own, and this took the form of musical hallucinations, mostly musical memories from her earlier life. The brain needed to stay incessantly active, and if it was not getting its usual stimulation..., it would create its own stimulation in the form of hallucinations.
Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

Oliver Sacks
There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery rhymes and the little chants and songs we use to teach young children have choruses and refrains. We are attracted to repetition, even as adults; we want the stimulus and the reward again and again, and in music we get it. Perhaps, therefore, we should not be surprised, should not complain if the balance sometimes shifts too far and our musical sensitivity b ...more
Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

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