Sandra Aamodt, PhD, and Sam Wang, PhD, coauthors of Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life (Bloomsbury). Based in northern California, Dr. Aamodt is editor in chief of Nature Neuroscience, a scientific journal on brain research. Dr. Wang is associate professor of neuroscience at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. He has published more than 40 articles on the brain.
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