Idiot Brain : : What Your Head is Really up to
Book - 2016 612.8 Bu, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Science & Nature / Biology / Burnett, Dean 2 On Shelf No requests on this item
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Introduction -- Mind controls: how the brain regulates the body, and usually makes a mess of things -- The gift of memory (keep the receipt): the human memory system, and its strange features -- Fear: nothing to be scared of: the many ways in which the brain makes us constantly afraid -- Think you're clever, do you?: the baffling and complex science of intelligence -- Did you see this chapter coming?: the haphazard properties of the brain's observational systems -- Personality: a testing concept: the complex and confusing properties of personality -- Group hug!: how the brain is influenced by other people -- When the brain breaks down... mental health problems, and how they come about -- Afterword.
"A delightful tour of our mysterious, mischievous gray matter from neuroscientist and massively popular Guardian blogger Dean Burnett,"--NoveList.
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PUBLISHED
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.
Year Published: 2016
Description: 328 pages ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780393253788
0393253783
SUBJECTS
Consciousness -- Popular works.
Brain -- Popular works.
Neurosciences -- Popular works.
Memory -- Popular works.
Brain -- physiology.