Elizabeth Bear

Neuroplasticity, Neurobiology and the Brain

September 5, 2014 in Forum Quotes

I’ve been doing a lot of reading lately into neuroplasticity and neurobiology, and some of the cool, freaky things that brains can do–and some of the tragic ones. Favorite weird brain facts/research angles/brain hacks, anyone?

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Elizabeth Bear
Elizabeth Bear is a science fiction and fantasy author based in Massachusetts. In 2005 she won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and she has also won two Hugo Awards, for Best Short Story and Best Novelette. Elizabeth is an instructor at the Viable Paradise science fiction and fantasy writers’ workshop and also teaches at Clarion, Clarion West, the WisCon Writer’s Respite, and Odyssey.

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Hacking the Human Mind

September 5, 2014 in Forum Quotes

It seems to me that one of the great technological revolutions ongoing around us right now involved practical neurobiology–we’re getting more and more adept at understanding how brains work, in other words, and how to hack them.

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Elizabeth Bear
Elizabeth Bear is a science fiction and fantasy author based in Massachusetts. In 2005 she won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and she has also won two Hugo Awards, for Best Short Story and Best Novelette. Elizabeth is an instructor at the Viable Paradise science fiction and fantasy writers’ workshop and also teaches at Clarion, Clarion West, the WisCon Writer’s Respite, and Odyssey.

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