My Favorite Lobe





Table of Contents
INTRO | 06.21.99
The Elaborate Machine
Steven Johnson and James Ryerson introduce FEED's special issue, "The New Brain."

DOCUMENT | 06.21.99
My Favorite Lobe
End-of-millennium science has given us a startling new vision of the brain's topography. FEED invites eight of the world's leading experts to describe the brain's most fascinating regions.

  • Daniel Dennett: How Do We See?
  • Joseph LeDoux: Where Does Fear Come From?
  • Steven Quartz: What Makes Us Human?
  • Michael Gazzaniga: How Did Our Brains Become So Specialized?
  • Susan Greenfield: Where Do Our Emotions Lurk?
  • Vilayanur Ramachandran: Are Empathy and Mind-Reading Related?
  • Nicholas Humphrey: Why Do We Have Big Brains?
  • William Calvin: Why Do We Do Things Better Than Apes?

    • ESSAY | 06.23.99
    This Is Your Brain On Buddha
    Can Buddhism fill the gaps in neuroscience? Erik Davis makes the case.

    ESSAY | 06.21.99
    One Pill Makes You Smarter
    Are memory drugs the next over-the-counter revolution? David Shenk reports.

    RE | 06.21.99
    Re: Peter Kramer
    Jeremy Kay talks to the author of Listening to Prozac about the future of cosmetic psychopharmacology.

    RE | 06.21.99
    Re: Steven Rose
    Edge's John Brockman talks to the famed neurobiologist about free will, Alzheimer's, and ultra-Darwinism.

    LINKS | 06.21.99
    Brain Candy
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    Note: The ventral and lateral cutaways of the brain (depicted above) offer unobstructed views of many regions of the brain, but not all. The locations of the amygdala and substantia nigra, for instance, are approximations.