Mind Hacks

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Psychology
MIND HACKS Tips Tools for Using Your Brain
While you read this, think about all that is happening: how your eyes move to center themselves on the words, ki how you idly scratch your arm while you're thinking, the
W attention-grabbing movements, noises, and other distractions you're filtering out. It all appears to be happening automatically—as if by magic. But working tirelessly behind the scenes is your brain, a fearsomely complex information-processing environment, less like a computer and more like an ecosystem.
Mind Hacks is a collection of probes into the moment-by-moment workings of our brain with a view to understanding ourselves a little better and learning a little more, in a very real sense, about what makes us tick. In this book, you will:
• Explore the geography of your brain: take in the sights and check out the landmarks
• Trace the visual system, all the way from eye movement to image reconstruction
• Pay attention to attention—and see how you use... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Psychology
MIND HACKS Tips Tools for Using Your Brain
While you read this, think about all that is happening: how your eyes move to center themselves on the words, ki how you idly scratch your arm while you're thinking, the
W attention-grabbing movements, noises, and other distractions you're filtering out. It all appears to be happening automatically—as if by magic. But working tirelessly behind the scenes is your brain, a fearsomely complex information-processing environment, less like a computer and more like an ecosystem.
Mind Hacks is a collection of probes into the moment-by-moment workings of our brain with a view to understanding ourselves a little better and learning a little more, in a very real sense, about what makes us tick. In this book, you will:
• Explore the geography of your brain: take in the sights and check out the landmarks
• Trace the visual system, all the way from eye movement to image reconstruction
• Pay attention to attention—and see how you use it to filter information long before conscious awareness
• Understand how you integrate sight, touch, other inputs, and your propensity for language, and other inputs—and what happens when these senses disagree
• Catch a glimpse of how your brain sees your body (hint: it's very different from the body you see in the mirror)
• Apply your reasoning to solve everyday pragmatic problems and see where your use of logic falls short
• Break down your mind's reconstruction of objects into component parts and delve into its linkage of cause and effect
• Understand how you learn, from basic priming to context effects to implanting false memories
• Delve into the special understanding we have for other people: how we read their faces and emotions and manage, to some degree, to get inside their minds Vissza