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Matthew Cobb - The Idea of the Brain

Mind & Body
Matthew Cobb - The Idea of the Brain
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QUB Brain Society Presents Professor Matthew Cobb - The Idea of the Brain

Join us as Professor Matthew Cobb from the University of Manchester discusses his book The Idea of the Brain: A History.

This is the story of our quest to understand the most mysterious object in the universe: the human brain. Today we tend to picture it as a computer. Earlier scientists thought about it in their own technological terms: as a telephone switchboard, or a clock, or all manner of fantastic mechanical or hydraulic devices. Could the right metaphor unlock the its deepest secrets once and for all?

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Matthew Cobb is Professor of Zoology at the University of Manchester where his research focuses on the sense of smell, insect behaviour and the history of science. His books include The Egg & Sperm Race and acclaimed accounts of the French Resistance during the Second World War and the liberation of Paris in 1944.

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