Exploring the many surprising facts and myths about our sense of touch, Linden reveals how it defines us - and how, by understanding it, we can better know ourselves.
David Linden is a professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, USA, and the award-winning author of The Accidental Mind- How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God which was a New York Times bestseller. Since 2008 he has been the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Neurophysiology, a role at the centre of the neuroscience research community. He lives in Baltimore.
Illuminating. Drawing on a wide range of cutting-edge scientific
research, Linden provides plenty of insights into how our sense of
touch shapes our experience of the world and our idea of self
*Sunday Times*
This book is excellent. It tells you why footballers hug each other
when a goal is scored, and why there are vampire bats. Linden is
very good and clear on the raw neurology
*Spectator*
Absorbing. The bizarre vagaries of touch affect us all, [and] all
this is backed up with a good deal of hard neuroscience. Following
Linden's thread is worth it
*The Times*
Most of us take the tactile senses for granted. You won't after
reading this book. The best science writers infect you with their
fascination for the subject - that's exactly what Linden achieves
here
*BBC Focus*
A treasure trove for anyone wanting to decode the frisson of a
lover's caress
*Playboy*
Will make you think more deeply about every itch, scrape and
caress
*Washington Post*
Fascinating. This book has changed my life
*Observer*
A touching story? A tactless comment? So elemental is the sense of
touch that it permeates metaphors we live by. Linden explores the
'weird, complex, and often counter-intuitive' tactile system and
its intimate impact on the human experience
*Nature*
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