Play with your brain!, the editorial series that takes up the challenge of making neuroscience simple, engaging and within everyone’s reach, a topic that has gained particularly broad and heterogeneous diffusion and interest in recent years.

Every day we experience how the mind works: our behaviors, emotions, language, and interactions with other people are all actions influenced by how our brain works. Despite its complexity and apparent hostility, the topic has finally left university classrooms and specialist conferences, reaching a curious, passionate and transversal audience, including publishers and various media.

Born in collaboration with researchers from CIMeC, the Interdepartmental Mind and Brain Center of the University of Trento, the new Erickson series Play your brain! talks about neuroscience in an easy way, for those who are not experts or are not familiar with the more specialized vocabulary.

THE VOLUMES IN THE SERIES

Play with your brain! Forever plastic

YURI BOZZI, GABRIELE CHELINI

Play with your brain! Forever plastic tells the infinite adventure of the mind in all its forms, revealing the secrets of what happens to the brain in the different phases of life.

How does memory work? To what extent can a brain regenerate itself? Through a series of analyses, debates, experiments and anecdotes, but also games and activities, this book (which is also a workbook) explains how some cognitive functions actually work, providing advice on how to improve them and always keep them in shape.

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Leaf through some selected pages from the book that have been translated into English to facilitate your evaluation:

Play with your brain! Listening to Deafness

FRANCESCO PAVANI

Did you know that we hear with our ears but listen with our brains? And that white cats with blue eyes are deaf from birth? That there are languages without sound and that the ear cells that enable us to hear are exactly our age and do not regenerate?

Through analysis, debates, experiments and anecdotes – but also games and activities – we learn about the infinite adventure of listening in all its forms, because deafness is described here by going beyond the mere description of how the ear works. This volume of the Play With Your Brain! series takes us into the world of neuroprosthetics and the multisensory perspective to help us discover how they have changed the way we think about hearing. 

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Leaf through some selected pages from the book that have been translated into English to facilitate your evaluation:

THE AUTHORS

Yuri Bozzi, professor of Physiology at the University of Trento. He is director of CIMeC – Interdepartmental Mind and Brain Center of the University of Trento.

Gabriele Chelini, research fellow at CIMec – Interdepartmental Mind and Brain Center of the University of Trento.

Francesco Pavani, Full Professor of General Psychology at the University of Trento and Deputy Director of the Interdepartmental Mind/Brain Center – CIMEC.