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Why do you really still feel fat after losing weight? Why do you really duck your head when you drive into an underground parking garage? What makes your kids so enthralled by video gaming? The answers to these questions are available in a new knowledge of how the human brain interacts with the body, the space around the body, and the social world. Every point on the body, each internal organ, and every point in space out to the finish of your fingertips is mapped inside your brain. Your ability to sense, move, and act in the physical world comes from a rich network of flexible body maps distributed throughout your brain. The science of body maps has far-reaching applications. It can help people lose weight, improve their ability to play a sport, or assist recovery from stroke. It points the best way to new treatments for anorexia and phantom limbs. It helps explain out-of-body experiences, auras, placebos, and healing touch. It provides a new way to comprehend human thoughts from wish to hate, lust to disgust, pride to humiliation. With scientific discoveries from every corner of the globe, Sandra and Matthew Blakeslee have written a compelling narrative that is positively mind-bending and that will appeal to readers of Sharon Begley's Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain.
