The Idea of the Brain: A History by Matthew Cobb

The Idea of the Brain: A History

Matthew Cobb

480 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction psychology science informative slow-paced
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This is the story of our quest to understand the most mysterious object in the universe: the human brain.Today we tend to picture it as a computer. Earlier scientists thought about it in their own technological terms: as a telephone switchboard, o...

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