Exploring the many surprising facts and myths about our sense of touch, this book reveals how it defines us - and how, by understanding it, we can better know ourselves.
Touch is the most important sense we have. Without it, we cannot entirely feel pleasure or pain - we are less than human. In fact, as neuroscientist Linden demonstrates in the astonishing stories gathered here, touch is central to who we are - from choosing our partners to comforting us on our deathbeds. He reveals how it defines us - and how, by understanding it, we can better know ourselves.
Why does holding a hot drink make us like people more?
How can a soldier under fire not even notice he's been shot?
What makes sex so much fun?
Touch is the most important sense we have. Without it, we cannot entirely feel pleasure or pain - we are less than human.
In fact, as David Linden demonstrates in the astonishing stories gathered here, touch is central to who we are - from choosing our partners to comforting us on our deathbeds.
Exploring the many surprising facts and myths about our sense of touch, Linden reveals how it defines us - and how, by understanding it, we can better know ourselves.
Illuminating. Drawing on a wide range of cutting-edge scientific research, Linden
provides plenty of insights into how our sense of touch shapes our experience of the world and our idea of self Sunday Times
David Linden is a professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, USA, and the award-winning author of
The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God which was a
New York Times bestseller. Since 2008 he has been the Editor-in-Chief of the
Journal of Neurophysiology, a role at the centre of the neuroscience research community. He lives in Baltimore.
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David Linden is a professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, USA, and the award-winning author of The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God which was a New York Times bestseller. Since 2008 he has been the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Neurophysiology, a role at the centre of the neuroscience research community. He lives in Baltimore.
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David Linden is a professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, USA, and the award-winning author of The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God which was a New York Times bestseller. Since 2008 he has been the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Neurophysiology, a role at the centre of the neuroscience research community. He lives in Baltimore.
