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Becoming Batman: The Possibility of a Superhero is a 2008 science book by neuroscience professor E. Paul Zehr. [1] The book was first published on November 7, 2008, through Johns Hopkins University Press and covers how much an ordinary person would need to train and adapt to become Batman .
In 2008, she co-authored with Mario Beauregard The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul, which criticizes reductive materialism and proposed the existence of a non-material self, or soul. [8] [9] The book argues that religious and spiritual experiences cannot be reduced wholly to neurological functioning. [10]
It was named an Apple Books book-of-the-month and Next Big Idea Club selection. It was published by Penguin Life in the U.K. as The Changing Mind: A Neuroscientist's Guide to Ageing Well; it debuted at #5 on the Sunday Times Bestseller List. [53] It was named by the Sunday Times as one of the best books of 2020 [54]
Ryuta Kawashima (川島 隆太, Kawashima Ryūta, [kaɰaɕima ɾʲɨᵝːta]; born May 23, 1959) is a Japanese neuroscientist known for his appearances in the Brain Age series of video games for the Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo Switch.
Being You: A New Science of Consciousness is a 2021 non-fiction book by neuroscientist Anil Seth, published by Faber and Faber. The book explores the author's theory of consciousness and the self. Seth also looks at the relationship between humans, animals, and the potential for machines to have consciousness.
Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system. This includes Neuroanatomy; Behavioral neuroscience; Evolutionary neuroscience; Neural development; Genetics; Biochemistry; Physiology; Pharmacology; Neuroinformatics; Computational neuroscience
His third book, How Dogs Love Us: A Neuroscientist and His Adopted Dog Decode the Canine Brain, was published in October 2013. The book describes Berns' efforts to train dogs to voluntarily undergo functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Because MRI machines are loud and require subjects to remain still during scans, prior to Berns' work ...
Richard Graham Michael Morris, CBE FRS FRSE (born 27 June 1948), [1] is a British neuroscientist.He is known for developing the Morris water navigation task, [2] for proposing the concept of synaptic tagging (along with Julietta U. Frey (formerly published under Uwe Frey), and for his work on the function of the hippocampus.