HOW DOES THE BRAIN WORK?

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$24.99

   Order Code: PBS319DV    ISBN : 9781608833610
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The four entertaining segments in this NOVA episode investigate topics such as how visual information is processed, artificial intelligence, the potential for mind control, and how perception becomes reality.

Segments: Magic and the Brain details the neuroscience involved in illusions; Can Machines Think Like Us? profiles Watson, the IBM computer designed to compete against human contestants on Jeopardy!; Magnetic Mind Control explores how scientists soon may be able to "hack" into the human brain; and Profile: David Eagleton looks at how the researcher’s "guerilla science" attempts to alter people’s sense of time and explain the phenomenon of synesthesia. Hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson.

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Copyright

2011

Publisher

PBS

Grade

9 and up

Color

Color and black-and-white

Run Time

60 minutes

ISBN

9781608833610