You need to read the book to get the details, but the cause was apparently due to the people handling the disks (on which the logo was made up of a set of white horizontal lines) spent a lot of their time staring at VDUs, which contained lots of horizontal green lines of text. Unfortunately, on the information related to eyes there are gross inaccuracies and information that is simply wrong. Plasticity has been known about for a long time and none of the information in the book was more than I learnt in my undergraduate degree. Med hjälp av en mikrofon spelas ljud från omgivning in och omvandlas till en elektrisk signal som anpassas något för att sedan fortsätta längs hörselnerven till hjärnan. Excellent book about the plasticity of the brain -- about how every experience we have changes the brain, and about how the brain maximizes it resources to interpret the data coming in from our senses.

And there is no more accomplished and accessible guide than renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman to help us understand the nature and changing texture of that fabric. Your neural networks are not hardwired but livewired, reconfiguring their circuitry every moment of your life. Plasticiteten eller “formbarheten” minskar över tid, något som sker olika snabbt i olika delar av hjärnan beroende på hur konstant informationen är. We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from.David Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Stanford University, an internationally bestselling author, and a Guggenheim Fellow. I really loved Eagleman's discussion of the waterfall effect, and how it doesn't represent, as is often though, fatigue of sensory neurons, but actually represents an active recalibration. Livewired reads wonderfully, like what a book would be if it were written by Oliver Sacks and William Gibson, sitting on Carl Sagan's front lawn. Mannen lär sig inte att känna igen hur olika mönster av vibrationer representer olika föremål utan upplever det snarare som att sakerna finns där ute.

Särskilt beskriver David Eagleman hur hjärnan har förmågan att tolka komplicerade signaler från sensoriska organ och av dessa ta till vara på den i stunden relevanta informationen. Trots allt lever hjärnan i ett mörkt rum där den enda kopplingen med omvärlden består av elektrokemiska signaler. I know a little about plasticity in terms of the development of binocular vision, but more importantly I know a lot about vision and eyes.We work closely with publishers and authors to ensure that we offer the best books on the market for your child. Some of you may know that I gave a TED talk a few years ago on how we can leverage the principles of livewiring to feed totally new kinds of data streams into the brain (and we’ve now built specialized hardware with which to do this), and I dive deep and wide on this notion in the book. The inaccuracies were referenced but did not match what the reference material stated and I had to go to the reference source to clarify what was actually factually correct. Ljudboken läser Eagleman upp mycket entusiastiskt vilket gör det hela till en mycket trevlig och framförallt spännande lyssning. It's not that the idea of the brain as a self-patterning system that adapts and changes as inputs vary is new, but the sheer depth and speed of the phenomenon is only relatively recently understood and Eagleman gives us a very wide range of examples, from a young child who had half his brain removed, but developed normally, the remaining half taking on all the roles of the other, to the remarkably short term adaptations that enable us to cope with, for example, changes in lighting colour and intensity.

The magic of the brain is not found in the parts it's made of but in the way those parts unceasingly reweave themselves in an electric living fabric.

Taking the idea further, Eagleman makes us wonder whether a livewired, self-adapting home and electric grid could be right around the corner. It’s machinery that reconfigures itself, that adjusts and adapts to whatever’s going on around it to optimize its function. Despite occasional issues with the writing (and a warning that if you're squeamish that there are quite a lot of medical details as a lot we learn about the brain is from the results of damage and surgery) this is one of the best brain books I've read this year. David Eagleman är professor i neurovetenskap vid Stanford och har grundat företaget NeoSensory som tillverkar armband med vibrationsmotorer vilka kan ge döva förmågan att höra. The subject really grabbed my attention, and Eagleman is good at storytelling, but there were a couple of things about the writing style that irritated me.