Primer : our human brain was not designed all at once by a genius inventor on a blank sheet of paper / David J. Linden
Science is an ongoing process, not a belief system / William B. Kristan Jr. and Kathleen A. French
Developing, changing. Genetics provides a window on human individuality / Jeremy Nathans ; Though the brain has billions of neurons, wiring it all up may depend upon very simple rules / Alex L. Kolodkin ; From birth onward, our experience of the world is dominated by the brain's continual conversation with itself / Sam Wang ; Children's brains are different / Amy Bastian ; Your twelve-year-old isn't just sprouting new hair but is also forming (and being formed by) new neural connections / Linda Wilbrecht ; How you use your brain can change its basic structural organization / Melissa Lau and Hollis Cline ; Tool use can instantly rewire the brain / Alison L. Barth ; Life experiences and addictive drugs change your brain in similar ways / Julie Kauer
Signaling. Like it or not, the brain grades on a curve / Indira M. Raman ; The brain achieves its computational power through a massively parallel architecture / Liqun Luo ; The brain harbors many neurotransmitters / Solomon H. Snyder
Anticipating, sensing, moving. The eye knows what is good for us / Aniruddha Das ; You have a superpower
Charles E. Connor ; The sense of taste encompasses two roles : conscious taste perception and subconscious metabolic responses / Paul A.S. Breslin ; It takes an ensemble of strangely shaped nerve endings to build a touch / David D. Ginty ; The bane of pain is plainly in the brain / Allan Basbaum ; Time's weird in the brain
that's a good thing, and here's why /
Marshall G. Hussain Shuler and Vijay M.K. Namboodiri ; Electrical signals in the brain are strangely comprehensible / David Foster ; A comparative approach is imperative for the understanding of brain function / Cynthia F. Moss ; The cerebellum learns to predict the physics of our movements / Scott T. Albert and Reza Shadmehr ; Neuroscience can show us a new way to rehabilitate brain injury : the case of stroke / John W. Krakauer ; Almost everything you do is a habit / Adrian M. Haith
Relating. Interpreting information in voice requires brain circuits for emotional recognition and expression / Darcy B. Kelley ; Mind reading emerged at least twice in the course of evolution / Gül Dölen ; We are born to help others / Peggy Mason ; Intense romantic love uses subconscious survival circuits in the brain / Lucy L. Brown ; Human sexual orientation is strongly influenced by biological factors / David J. Linden
Deciding. Deep down, you are a scientist / Yael Niv ; Studying monkey brains can teach us about advertising / Michael Platt ; Beauty matters in ways we know and in ways we don't / Anjan Chatterjee ; "Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wants" / Scott M. Sternson ; The brain is overrated / Asif A. Ghazanfar ; Dopamine made you do it / Terrence Sejnowski ; The human brain, the true creator of everything, cannot be simulated by any Turing machine / Miguel A.L. Nicolelis ; There is no principle that prevents us from eventually building machines that think / Michael D. Mauk
