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“With its hundred billion nerve cells, with their hundred trillion interconnections, the human brain is the most complex phenomenon in the known universe - always, of course, excepting the interaction of some six billion such brains and their owners within the socio-technological culture of our planetary ecosystem!”

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Steven Rose, born on July 4, 1938, is a renowned cognitive psychologist from the United Kingdom. His research focuses on human memory and cognitive processes, which has had a profound impact on the field of psychology. more

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