The ideas driving 2018

• Autores: Liz Else, Simon Ings
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3159, 2018, págs. 42-43
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • To get your bearings and a feel for neuroscience, try two books by Yale University Press. First is Think Tank by David Linden at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland. He asked 40 researchers, including Miguel Nicolelis at the Walk Again Project and Cynthia Moss at the Amboseli Trust for Elephants, which idea about brain function they would most like to explain to the world. The ideas and scope range from love and sex to personality and perception--and how individual experiences radically change the make-up of the brain. The role of culture in shaping human minds and societies is also at the heart of Cognitive Gadgets by Cecilia Heyes (Harvard University Press). The title only sounds like those 19905 books about hard-wired instincts: for Heyes, our impressive cognitive equipment is shaped by cultural rather than genetic evolution. At birth, she argues, babies are only subtly different from newborn chimps. But expose babies to the deep culture of human environment and amazing effects occur.