The Invisible Hand
Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Human Hand Function
$206.02
- Paperback
520 pages
- Release Date
13 May 2025
Summary
How the “invisible hand” of the nervous system makes the human hand such an evolutionary success.
The hand has a central role in both human evolution and cultural development—in our descent and in our ascent. It is, Immanuel Kant said, “the visible part of the brain.” It is the invisible that concerns Matthew Longo in The Invisible Hand, a wide-ranging, deftly written account of the neural and cognitive mechanisms that have made a seemingly ordinary physical appendage an extr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262551878 |
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| ISBN-10: | 026255187X |
| Author: | Matthew Longo |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 520 |
| Release Date: | 13 May 2025 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm |
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About The Author
Matthew Longo
Matthew R. Longo is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Birkbeck, University of London, where he directs the Body Representation Laboratory.
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