Think tank: forty neuroscientists explore the biological roots of human experience

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 --
it's called vision / 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 --
Epilogue.