All About Your Brain

By (author) Winston Robert
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Packed with amazing illustrations and fascinating facts like why bird song is similar to human speech and what makes animals yawn, this book uncovers the amazing things your brain does while you are awake and asleep.
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Discover why you do what you do

Join Professor Robert Winston and introduce your child to the most powerful, complicated computer network that exists - their brain. From what the different parts of the brain do and why it changes at different stages in a person''s life, All About Your Brain uncovers the amazing things your brain does while you are awake and asleep.

All About Your Brain packed with amazing illustrations and fascinating facts like why bird song is similar to human speech and what makes animals yawn. As well as fun brainteasers to test your child''s memory, perception, reasoning and reactions.

Biographical note
A household name thanks to popular TV series that include The Human Body, which won three baftas, Superhuman, Walking with Cavemen and The Human Mind. A winner of the Royal Society''s prestigious Michael Faraday Gold Award, he was made a life peer in 1995.