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Preface Primer: Our Human Brain Was Not Designed All at Once by a Genius Inventor on a Blank Sheet of Paper David J. Linden Science Is an Ongoing Process, Not a Belief System William B. Kristan, Jr., and Kathleen A. French DEVELOPING, CHANGING Genetics Provides a Window on Human Individuality Jeremy Nathans Though the Brain Has Billions of Neurons, Wiring It All Up May Depend upon Very Simple Rules Alex L. Kolodkin From Birth Onward, Our Experience of the World Is Dominated by the Brain’s Continual Conversation with Itself Sam Wang Children’s Brains Are Different Amy Bastian Your Twelve-Year-Old Isn’t Just Sprouting New Hair but Is Also Forming (and Being Formed by) New Neural Connections Linda Wilbrecht How You Use Your Brain Can Change Its Basic Structural Organization Melissa Lau and Hollis Cline Tool Use Can Instantly Rewire the Brain Alison L. Barth Life Experiences and Addictive Drugs Change Your Brain in Similar Ways Julie Kauer SIGNALING Like It or Not, the Brain Grades on a Curve Indira M. Raman The Brain Achieves Its Computational Power through a Massively Parallel Architecture Liqun Luo The Brain Harbors Many Neurotransmitters Solomon H. Snyder ANTICIPATING, SENSING, MOVING The Eye Knows What Is Good for Us Aniruddha Das You Have a Superpower—It’s Called Vision Charles E. Connor The Sense of Taste Encompasses Two Roles: Conscious Taste Perception and Subconscious Metabolic Responses Paul A. S. Breslin It Takes an Ensemble of Strangely Shaped Nerve Endings to Build a Touch David D. Ginty The Bane of Pain Is Plainly in the Brain Allan Basbaum Time’s Weird in the Brain—That’s a Good Thing, and Here’s Why Marshall G. Hussain Shuler and Vijay M. K. Namboodiri Electrical Signals in the Brain Are Strangely Comprehensible David Foster A Comparative Approach Is Imperative for the Understanding of Brain Function Cynthia F. Moss The Cerebellum Learns to Predict the Physics of Our Movements Scott T. Albert and Reza Shadmehr Neuroscience Can Show Us a New Way to Rehabilitate Brain Injury: The Case of Stroke John W. Krakauer Almost Everything You Do Is a Habit Adrian M. Haith RELATING Interpreting Information in Voice Requires Brain Circuits for Emotional Recognition and Expression Darcy B. Kelley Mind Reading Emerged at Least Twice in the Course of Evolution Gül Dölen We Are Born to Help Others Peggy Mason Intense Romantic Love Uses Subconscious Survival Circuits in the Brain Lucy L. Brown Human Sexual Orientation Is Strongly Influenced by Biological Factors David J. Linden DECIDING Deep Down, You Are a Scientist Yael Niv Studying Monkey Brains Can Teach Us about Advertising Michael Platt Beauty Matters in Ways We Know and in Ways We Don’t Anjan Chatterjee “Man Can Do What He Wants, but He Cannot Will What He Wants” Scott M. Sternson The Brain Is Overrated Asif A. Ghazanfar Dopamine Made You Do It Terrence Sejnowski The Human Brain, the True Creator of Everything, Cannot Be Simulated by Any Turing Machine Miguel A. L. Nicolelis There Is No Principle That Prevents Us from Eventually Building Machines That Think Michael D. Mauk