Brainscapes

In Brainscapes, Rebecca Schwarzlose combines unforgettable real-life stories, cutting-edge research, and vivid illustrations to reveal brain maps’ surprising lessons about our place in the world— and about the world’s place within us. This book is well written for anyone with a general interest in how our senses work. Schwarzlose, a neuroscientist at Washington University in St. Louis, writes with the zeal of an enthusiastic teacher yearning to share her passion with her students, said Randi Hutter Epstein in a review for The New York Times.

“For the most part Schwarzlose succeeds.”