Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life
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By: Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang
Format: Hardcover
From: Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date: February 2008
From: Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date: February 2008
Product Details:
Catalog: Book
Release Date: 2008-03-04
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Pages: 240
Ean: 9781596912830
Isbn: 1596912839
Catalog: Book
Release Date: 2008-03-04
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Pages: 240
Ean: 9781596912830
Isbn: 1596912839
ABOUT THE BOOK
EDITORIAL REVIEW
You: The Owner’s Manual for the brain: an expert, comprehensive, and lively guide that makes sense of all the latest scientific findings about how your brain really works.
We are using our brains at practically every moment of our lives, and yet few of us have the first idea how they work. Much of what we think we know comes from folklore: that we only use 10 percent of our brain, or that drinking kills brain cells. These and other brain myths are wrong, as demonstrated by the work of neuroscientists who have spent decades studying this complex organ. However, most of what scientists have learned is not known to the world outside their laboratories.
In this readable, lively book, Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang dispel common myths about the brain and provide a comprehensive, useful overview of how it really works. In its pages, you’ll discover how to cope with jet lag, how your brain affects your religion, and how men’s and women’s brains differ. With witty, accessible prose decorated by charts, trivia, quizzes, and illustrations, this book is great for quick reference or extended reading.
Both practical and fun, Welcome to Your Brain is perfect whether you want to impress your friends or simply use your brain better.
We are using our brains at practically every moment of our lives, and yet few of us have the first idea how they work. Much of what we think we know comes from folklore: that we only use 10 percent of our brain, or that drinking kills brain cells. These and other brain myths are wrong, as demonstrated by the work of neuroscientists who have spent decades studying this complex organ. However, most of what scientists have learned is not known to the world outside their laboratories.
In this readable, lively book, Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang dispel common myths about the brain and provide a comprehensive, useful overview of how it really works. In its pages, you’ll discover how to cope with jet lag, how your brain affects your religion, and how men’s and women’s brains differ. With witty, accessible prose decorated by charts, trivia, quizzes, and illustrations, this book is great for quick reference or extended reading.
Both practical and fun, Welcome to Your Brain is perfect whether you want to impress your friends or simply use your brain better.
USER REVIEWS
"This book is rather boring.
I was not able to read through it so far.
I keep falling into sleep while reading it.
The topic might be very interesting, the writers might be good doctors,
but they are not good writers."
~ Written on 2008-08-09
I was not able to read through it so far.
I keep falling into sleep while reading it.
The topic might be very interesting, the writers might be good doctors,
but they are not good writers."
~ Written on 2008-08-09
"Although neuroscience is expanding rapidly with new knowledge and amazing insights, this book gives only a superficial understanding, including a few interesting facts but nothing beyond introductory psych course material. I guess since I could answer the question in the title, that should have been a clue that the book offered nothing new. If you've read any other sources about the brain, this takes tiny bits of the same info but dumbs it down. Get Norman Doidge's book instead."
~ Written on 2008-08-06
~ Written on 2008-08-06
"Welcome to Your Brain is unique in it's ability to fully explain each topic with both example and description. When one reads a book like this, you first go to topics that you have personal interest in such as an event within you family that you would like to learn more about. I found numerous occassions in reading through the chapters, where I would learn something new which caused me to think about how unique the brain really is. Demistifying common misconceptions on the brain was an awakening. Almost like a good novel, can't put it down!"
~ Written on 2008-08-06
~ Written on 2008-08-06
"This brainy duo managed to write a fascinating book about how the mind works
that is both entertaining and fun. A great read for most anyone who has a brain and is curious to know how it works. Seriously, this appealing book seems to capture the attention of everyone who picks it up. It has disappeared from my coffee table a number of times. Get it for yourself or give it as a gift. This book is definitely a winner!"
~ Written on 2008-08-06
that is both entertaining and fun. A great read for most anyone who has a brain and is curious to know how it works. Seriously, this appealing book seems to capture the attention of everyone who picks it up. It has disappeared from my coffee table a number of times. Get it for yourself or give it as a gift. This book is definitely a winner!"
~ Written on 2008-08-06
"For some reason I was expecting a more in-depth treatment of the subject than this book actually delivers. The introduction basically brands the book as a good "coffee table book" - easy reading. And it does achieve this goal to some extent. It gives a good overview of how the brain functions, but for my taste it is a bit heavy on the "myth busting" sidepanels and too light on the fine details regarding the electro/chemical/physical mechanics of how the brain converts sensory input into action. Basically I bought the wrong book, so I won't knock down the stars because of this.
Incidentally, two things really bugged me: 1) the authors launched into an attack on Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett and "militant" atheism for no apparent good reason (yes, Richard Dawkins is my hero!) and 2) whenever the authors get into evolutionary theory regarding why the brain is the way it is, they speak in terms of species-level selection rather than individual-level selection, which is inaccurate and a bit lazy (and yes, Dawkins has spoiled me on this point). "
~ Written on 2008-07-15
Incidentally, two things really bugged me: 1) the authors launched into an attack on Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett and "militant" atheism for no apparent good reason (yes, Richard Dawkins is my hero!) and 2) whenever the authors get into evolutionary theory regarding why the brain is the way it is, they speak in terms of species-level selection rather than individual-level selection, which is inaccurate and a bit lazy (and yes, Dawkins has spoiled me on this point). "
~ Written on 2008-07-15