The Brain in Development. Mysteries of Neuroscience: Everything We Know and Don't Know About Brain Development – Goddard Marcia – CoLibri – 2026 – ISBN 978-5-389-33891-3
The Brain in Development. Mysteries of Neuroscience: Everything We Know and Don't Know About Brain Development
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The Brain in Development. Mysteries of Neuroscience: Everything We Know and Don't Know About Brain Development
9.99 €
Marcia Goddard's "Brain Under Construction" isn't just a popular exposition of neuroscience, but rather a research-based training for the mind. The author, a doctor of neuropsychology specializing in the "neuroscience of society," transforms reading into solving successive problems. Each chapter is structured like a case study: an introduction to the problem, a description of a real-life experiment (from interactions within Formula 1 teams to collaboration with computer game developers), and an algorithm for drawing conclusions. Instead of encyclopedic dryness, the book offers a close look at how research is structured.
The book's key ideas echo Tatyana Chernigovskaya's thesis on the importance of constantly "training" the brain through new adaptive challenges. Goddard emphasizes that the brain is a highly complex organ whose development continues throughout life, and regular "training" is critically important for it. The book itself acts as a kind of "warm-up" for thinking, offering not passive reading but active co-research: analyzing experiments, looking at the problem from different angles, and independently understanding how the flexibility of neural mechanisms is connected to everyday learning and adaptation.
The book's key ideas echo Tatyana Chernigovskaya's thesis on the importance of constantly "training" the brain through new adaptive challenges. Goddard emphasizes that the brain is a highly complex organ whose development continues throughout life, and regular "training" is critically important for it. The book itself acts as a kind of "warm-up" for thinking, offering not passive reading but active co-research: analyzing experiments, looking at the problem from different angles, and independently understanding how the flexibility of neural mechanisms is connected to everyday learning and adaptation.
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