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Chris Frith, University College, London
Inside your head there is an amazing labour saving device, more effective than
the latest high-tech computer. Your brain frees you from the everyday tasks of
moving about in the world around you, allowing you to concentrate on the things
that are important to you; making friends and influencing people.
However, the 'you' that is released into this social world is also a
construction of your brain. It is your brain that enables you to share your
mental life with the people around you.
Using evidence from brain imaging, psychological experiments, and patient
studies, Chris, one of the world's leading neuroscientists, will explore the
relationship between the mind and the brain.
Chris
has recently published Making up the mind: how the brain creates our mental
world. He is professor of neuropsychology, at the Wellcome Trust Centre for
Neuroimaging at UCL.His other publications include Schizophrenia: a very
short introduction (2003, with Eve C. Johnstone) and The neuroscience of
social interaction (2004, edited with Daniel Wolpert). |
