Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To [First American edition] 9780393253788, 9780393253795, 9780393354119, 0393253783

"A delightful tour of our mysterious, mischievous gray matter from neuroscientist and massively popular Guardian bl

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English Pages 328 pages ; 25 cm Year 2016

Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To [First American edition]
9780393253788, 9780393253795, 9780393354119, 0393253783

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Burnett
Dean

Table of contents :
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.

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