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Idiot brain : what your head is really up to / Dean Burnett.

Summary:

"In Idiot Brain, neuroscientist Dean Burnett celebrates blind spots, blackouts, insomnia, and all the other downright laughable things our minds do to us, while also exposing the many mistakes we've made in our quest to understand how our brains actually work"--Amazon.com.

Record details

ISBN: 9780393253788
ISBN: 0393253783
Physical Description: 328 pages ; 25 cm
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-320) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.