Pre-Owned ¿Por Qué Tenemos El Cerebro En La Cabeza? / Why Do We Have Our Brain in Our Head?: Questions and Answers about the Most Complex System in the Universe (Paperback) 6073187580 9786073187589

Un fascinante recorrido por el cerebro: su estructura, sus capacidades, sus limitaciones, y c?mo construye la realidad en la que vivimos.

Qu? es el cerebro y de qu? est? hecho? Cu?les son sus funciones? Percibimos fielmente el mundo? En qu? nos diferenciamos de las computadoras? Por qu? dormimos y so?amos? C?mo funciona la memoria?

Estas y otras preguntas son las que el destacado neurocient?fico Pedro Maldonado ha escuchado en salones de clase, en conferencias y hasta en su propia casa. Ante el inter?s y la curiosidad que despierta el sistema m?s complejo del universo, Maldonado decidi? abordar estas interrogantes, se?al?ndonos que, por ejemplo, las diferentes ?reas del cerebro no cumplen una ?nica funci?n, que el «efecto Mozart no es m?s que un «neuromito o que la experiencia visual es una construcci?n mental. Esto, con el prop?sito de compartir todo lo que sabe sobre esta asombrosa y compleja m?quina biol?gica, capaz de realizar un sinn?mero de funciones distintas y que es la que nos hace, sobre todo, diversos y ?nicos como personas.

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A fascinating journey through the brain: its structure, its capabilities, its limitations, and how it builds the reality in which we live.

What is the brain and what is it made of? What are Its duties? Do we perceive the world as it really is? How do we differentiate ourselves from computers? Why do we sleep and dream? How does memory work?

These and other questions are what the prominent neuroscientist Pedro Maldonado has heard in classrooms, at conferences, and even in his own home. Given the interest and curiosity aroused by the most complex system in the universe, Maldonado decided to address these questions, pointing out that, for example, different areas of the brain do not fulfill a single function, that the "Mozart effect" is nothing more than a "neuromyth," or that the visual experience is a mental construct. This, with the purpose of sharing everything he knows about this amazing and complex biological machine, capable of performing countless different functions and that is what makes us, above all, diverse and unique as people.