Helia Naderi’s Reviews > The Spaces Between Us: A Story of Neuroscience, Evolution, and Human Nature > Status Update

I’m so happy I decided to finish this. It’s bringing me so much joy and fascination. I love that I’m learning neuroscience through fun books instead of stupid school curricula.

“How does it [a neuron] know to respond to the quiet hiss of white noise from a speaker a hand’s-breadth behind the head, and yet ignore the same white noise when it is located an arm’s length from the back of the head and the loudness is adjusted so that the amplitude at the ear is the same?” 🤯

“...When a tradition develops in science, people become blind to its faults. They develop a bias and see the method as correct and proper, simple and controlled. But the images on the screen did a lousy job of activating our putamen neurons...”