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The once and future brain

A review of The Extended Mind. A review of How the Mind Uses the Brain (to Move the Body and Image the Universe) by Ralph D. Ellis and Natika Newton. Albert Mobilio reviews Carl Schoonover's Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century. A review of Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain by Antonio Damasio (and more and more and more and more). Journey through the mind: Carl Zimmer on the once and future brain. An interview with Norman Doidge, author of The Brain that Changes Itself. The Human Connectome Project is a first-of-its-kind map of the brain's circuitry (and more from TED). Physicist Dani Bassett discusses the structural similarities between the human brain and that of worms — or of nearly any system that processes information. Liar, liar: Brain circuit predicts others' honesty. Brain imaging studies show different cultures have different brains. The last few decades have produced an explosion of new techniques for probing the blobby, unprepossessing brain in search of the thinking, feeling, suffering, scheming mind. Does thinking happen in the brain? Alva Noe makes sense of brain behavior. Wiring up brains: Viewed as a network of inter-connected regions, the brain faces a difficult trade-off. The Time Travelling Brain: What's the difference between walking down the street yesterday, and walking down the street tomorrow? The problem with neurotrash is that it finds its way into the culture.