El cerebro humano es una máquina extraordinaria, capaz de transformarse a sí misma a partir de la experiencia y de albergar talentos que nos vuelven únicos como especie: lenguaje, lectura, matemáticas, creación art&iacut...
¿De dónde vienen realmente los números y cómo llegan a nuestra mente? ¿Por qué algunas personas tienen facilidad para lidiar con ellos y a muchas otras les resulta tan difícil dominarlos? Este libro ofrece...
Ustedes están leyendo esta contratapa como si fuera lo más natural del mundo. Todos damos por hecho que un conjunto de marcas, líneas y espacios sobre el papel significan algo.. y tendemos a olvidar que el acto de leer es una aut&eacu...
Who are we? To this age-old question, contemporary neuroscience gives a simple answer: we are exquisite neuronal machines. Each of our dreams, thoughts, and feelings arises from a pattern of activity in our brain. In Stanislas Dehaeneâs...
Humanity's greatest feat is our incredible ability to learn. Even in their first year, infants acquire language, visual and social knowledge at a rate that surpasses the best supercomputers. But how, exactly, do our brains learn?
From the acclaimed author of Reading in the Brain and How We Learn , a breathtaking look at the new science that can track consciousness deep in the brain
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Fifteen of the foremost scientists in this field presented testable theoretical models of consciousness and discussed how our understanding of the role that consciousness plays in our cognitive processes is being refined with some surprising results.
Our understanding of how the human brain performs mathematical calculations is far from complete, but in recent years there have been many exciting breakthroughs by scientists all over the world. Now, in The Number Sense, Stanislas Dehaene offers a fascin...
The act of reading is so easily taken for granted that we forget what an astounding feat it is. How can a few black marks on white paper evoke an entire universe of meanings? It's even more amazing when we consider that we read using a primate brain...