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Book Review of A Celebration of Neurons: An Educator's Guide to the Human Brain

A Celebration of Neurons: An Educator's Guide to the Human Brain
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From the Back: In this timely book, Robert Sylwester offers educators an introduction to "the only mass of matter in the known universe that can contemplate itself," the human brain. We all know that the brain is where learning takes place, but how many of us understand the brains' basic workings and use that understanding in our work with students? How many of us can even identify the basic parts of the brain and when they mature.