- Item type
- Book
- Language
- English
- Publication year
- 2021
- ISBN
- 978-1-5290-1864-6
"In seven short chapters (plus a brief history of how brains evolved), this slim, entertaining, and accessible collection reveals mind-expanding lessons from the front lines of neuroscience research. Youll learn where brains came from, how theyre structured (and why it matters), and how yours works in tandem with other brains to create everything you experience. Along the way, youll also learn to dismiss popular myths such as the idea of a lizard brain and the alleged battle between thoughts and emotions, or even between nature and nurture, to determine your behaviour.
Sure to intrigue casual readers and scientific veterans alike, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain is full of surprises, humour, and important implications for human a gift of a book about our mot complex and crucial organ that you will want to savour again and again." - from publisher.
Authors note --- The half-lesson: Your brain is not for thinking --- Lesson No. 1. You have one brain (not three) --- Lesson No. 2. Your brain is a network --- Lesson No. 3. Little brains wire themselves to their world --- Lesson No. 4. Your brain predicts (almost) everything you do --- Lesson No. 5. Your brain secretly works with other brains --- Lesson No. 6. Brains make more than one kind of mind --- Lesson No. 7. Our brains can create reality --- Epilogue --- Acknowledgements --- Appendix. The science behind the science..
