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Touch: The Science of the Sense that Makes Us Human - Softcover

Linden, David J.

 
9780241184066: Touch: The Science of the Sense that Makes Us Human
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0241184061 ISBN 13: 9780241184066
Verlag: Penguin, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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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Verlag
Penguin
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0241184061
ISBN 13 
9780241184066
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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