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FAITH HICKMAN BRYNIE (Bigfork, MT) is a science and health writer who has written
four previous books on the brain including 101 Questions Your Brain Has Asked
About Itself But Couldn’t Answer...Until Now, which won a Best of the Year award
from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Preface: Falling in Love with Science | p. ix |
Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
Touch | |
Life Without Touch | p. 3 |
In from the Cold | p. 9 |
On Which Side Is Your Bread Buttered? | p. 15 |
Pain and the Placebo Effect | p. 21 |
Nematodes, Haptics, and Brain-Machine Interfaces | p. 29 |
Smell | |
It's Valentine's Day...Sniff! | p. 39 |
Do Odors Dance in Your Nose? | p. 45 |
Life Without Scent | p. 53 |
The Sweaty Scent of Sex | p. 59 |
Express Train to Happiness | p. 65 |
Taste | |
The Bitter Truth | p. 75 |
Coconut Crazy | p. 83 |
Cooking Up Some Brain Chemistry | p. 89 |
How to Knit a Baby Taste Bud | p. 95 |
Expecting What You Taste and Tasting What You Expect | p. 101 |
Vision | |
The Big Picture | p. 109 |
Color and Memory | p. 117 |
Sizing Things Up | p. 123 |
On the Move | p. 130 |
Vision and the Video Game | p. 137 |
Hearing | |
Hearing, Left and Right | p. 147 |
Listening and Language | p. 154 |
My Eats Are Ranging | p. 160 |
Music and the Plastic Brain | p. 166 |
Cochlear Implant: One Man's Journey | p. 174 |
Beyond The Big Five | |
Synesthesia: When Senses Overlap | p. 183 |
If This Looks Like Déjà Vu, You Ain't Seen Nuthin' Yet | p. 190 |
Feeling a Phantom | p. 197 |
Probabilities and the Paranormal | p. 206 |
Time | p. 212 |
Appendix The Brain and the Nervous System-A Primer | p. 219 |
Notes | p. 235 |
Recommended Resources | p. 263 |
Index | p. 267 |
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