The Spaces Between Us
A Story of Neuroscience, Evolution, and Human Nature
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 5 April 2018
- ISBN 9780190461010
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages216 pages
- Size 157x239x22 mm
- Weight 431 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 12 0
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Short description:
Hidden beneath consciousness, the brain mechanisms controlling personal space affect every aspect of our lives-- social, emotional, cultural, and practical. A neuroscientist, award-winning novelist, and science columnist for The Atlantic, Graziano tells this compelling story with humor, drama, and a deeply personal connection.
MoreLong description:
Each of us has a protected zone two or three feet wide, swelling around the head and narrowing towards the feet. This zone isn't fixed in size: if you're nervous, it grows; if you're relaxed, it shrinks. It also depends on your cultural upbringing. Personal space is small in Japan and large in Australia. This safety zone, called personal space, provides an invisible spatial scaffold that frames our social interactions.
As Michael Graziano argues in The Spaces Between Us, it also organizes our social and emotional spacing, influences our facial expressions, and shapes our interactions with everyday objects including tools, furniture, and clothing. Even ordinary actions like walking are informed by a continuous under-the-surface calculation of threats and obstacles around the body: what Graziano calls a virtual bubble-wrap of active neurons that fire and move us to action, even before we may be conscious of our course corrections in real time. Humans evolved a complex way of interacting with others and their environment, and The Spaces Between Us looks at how this infrastructure may have led to the first smile and to a host of other human activities, from tool use, to courtship, and to a sense of self. The book concludes with a case study of Graziano's son, who had heart-breaking difficulties developing a functioning personal space. Written with poignant narrative clarity, Graziano makes the case for the interested scientific public that this system in the brain is more than a fascinating scientific topic: it's deeply personal and shapes our human nature.
Table of Contents:
A Note On Terminology
Chapter 1: The Second Skin
Chapter 2: A Startling Discovery
Chapter 3: The Flight Zone of the Zebra
Chapter 4: The French Stare Too Much and My Lover Has A Bulgy Nose
Chapter 5: Monkey Versus Ping Pong Ball
Chapter 6: Kissing in the Dark
Chapter 7: Hand-2-Mouth and Other Shocking Surprises of the Motor Cortex
Chapter 8: Superflinchers and Nerves of Steel
Chapter 9: The Peripersonal Radar In Humans
Chapter 10: Wrapping Personal Space Around My Black & Decker
Chapter 11: Why It's Sexy To Let A Vampire Bite Your Neck, And Other Social Consequences of Peripersonal Space
Chapter 12: The First Smile
Chapter 13: The First Laugh
Chapter 14: The First Cry
Chapter 15: The Personal Dimension of Personal Space
