What the Future Has in Store for Your Brain




Please Explain from WNYC New York Public Radio show

Summary: <p><span>For this week's Please Explain, we're?unraveling the mysteries of the human brain and heading to the</span><span>?absolute frontiers of neuroscience. We will discuss?the spectacular technological advances that will enable us to map the more than eighty-five billion neurons in the brain, as well as the challenges that lie ahead in understanding the anticipated deluge of data and the prospects for building working simulations of the human brain.</span></p><p><span><a rel="nofollow" class="guestlink">Gary Marcus</a>?is Director of the?<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.psych.nyu.edu/babyandchild/CLAM.html">NYU Center for Language and Music</a><span>, and Professor of</span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.nyu.edu/">?</a>Psychology<span>?at New York University.</span><a rel="nofollow" class="guestlink"><span>?</span><span>Ned Block</span></a><span> is the?Silver Professor<span>?of?Philosophy,?</span>Psychology<span>?and?</span>Neural Science at New York University. Dr. Marcus's new book, <span class="book"><a rel="nofollow" title="buy this book at Amazon" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/069116276X/wnycorg-20/">The Future of the Brain: Essays by the World's Leading Neuroscientists</a></span>,?features?an essay by Dr. Block arguing that high resolution images of the brain are not sufficient for?a true understanding of the mind.</span></span></p>