The speed of thought. A grandiose journey through the brain in 2.1 seconds

You look around the office, notice the last cookies in the box on the next table and take it. Only two seconds, but millions of processes occur in your brain. Everything is the reason - impulses, it is with them that neurons communicate with each other.
For each of us, the desire to eat sweet lies the exciting journey of impulses through the brain - through the flickering galaxy of neurons and the deep darkness of the cerebral cortex. Mark Humphris, the neurobiologist and author of this book, explores the work of impulses and tries to understand the most interesting issues of the science of the brain. How do we make decisions, control our own body and recognize faces (and cookies)? What does science know about impulses? And how many more secrets do our brain keep in itself? This neuroodissuit will allow you to look at the work of the brain and its amazing opportunities in a new way