What's the Gray Matter?

It's a mystery. Despite decades of research, we still struggle to understand how our perceptions of the world form and our actions are first initiated, how a single personality and a unified view of the world emerges from the activity of 100 billion neurons. A new volume of Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, The Year in Cognitive Neuroscience, reviews our current understanding of the neural basis of perception, complex behavior, even our emotions and social interactions. Edited by Michael B. Miller and Alan Kingstone, this volume features an interview with Michael Gazzaniga, acclaimed neuroscientist and author of Human: The Science of What Makes Us Unique and other renowned books.