Using vests and wristbands that transduce outside information like sound or light into mechanical vibrations, NeoSensory is not only giving back some sight and hearing ability back to those who have lost it; it is also creating whole new senses that didn't even exist before: "We tapped into the lidar stream [at Google headquarters] and hooked it up to the Vest. 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. It’s machinery that reconfigures itself, that adjusts and adapts to whatever’s going on around it to optimize its function.

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.You need to read the book to get the details, but the cause was apparently due to the people handling the disks (on which the logo was made up of a set of white horizontal lines) spent a lot of their time staring at VDUs, which contained lots of horizontal green lines of text. Excellent book about the plasticity of the brain -- about how every experience we have changes the brain, and about how the brain maximizes it resources to interpret the data coming in from our senses.

This is yet another title on the workings of the brain (though to be fair to David Eagleman it was already out in hardback, so he was at the start of the queue).

Not only did it have a thorough consolidation of many recent discoveries in neuroscience, but I was pleasantly surprised with a few new hypotheses to which I hadn't yet been exposed.

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. 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. We also see some aspects where the initial plasticity locks in, restricting future development if children haven't, for example, developed language skills by a particular stage.It is not included in promotions available to our main range products, as stated in our terms of service. From the best-selling author of Incognito and Sum comes a revelatory portrait of the human brain based on the most recent scientific discoveries about how it unceasingly adapts, re-creates, and formulates new ways of understanding the world we live in. Unfortunately, on the information related to eyes there are gross inaccuracies and information that is simply wrong. Every single page of this book presents intriguing and compelling information and answers to questions you never knew you wanted the answers to; I found it eminently readable from start to finish. Eagleman] aims, grandly, to do for the study of the mind what Copernicus did for the study of the stars.

Your neural networks are not hardwired but livewired, reconfiguring their circuitry every moment of your life.

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