"Neuroscientists have figured out a lot about how the brain works in the time since the fMRI was invented 18 years ago. A developmental molecular biologist named John Medina has summarized many of these finding as they relate to learning in a marvellous book and multimedia site entitled Brain Rules."
Noah Goldstein’s, Steve Martin’s (no, not that Steve Martin’s) and Robert Cialdini’s Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive is a pop psych book, where a bunch of research in psychology is distilled into one readable volume.
None of us can know the answers for sure until our own time comes, but the few individuals who have their brush with death interrupted by a last-minute reprieve can offer some intriguing insights.
9 drawings done by an artist under the influence of LSD -- part of a test conducted by the US government during it's dalliance with psychotomimetic drugs in the late 1950's.
by Quan Wen, Dmitri B. Chklovskii "...what is the reason for such segregation? To answer this question, we posit that brain functionality requires high interconnectivity and short conduction delays."