عنوان

Mind wide open :

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0743241657

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0743241665

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9780743241656

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9780743241663

شماره

b730662

عنوان اصلي

Mind wide open :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

your brain and the neuroscience of everyday life /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Steven Johnson.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

New York :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Scribner,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

©2004.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

ix, 274 pages :

ساير جزييات

illustrations ;

ابعاد

24 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index.

متن يادداشت

Kafka's room -- Mind sight -- The sum of my fears -- Your attention, please -- Survival of the ticklish -- The hormones talking -- Scan thyself.

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

Using a mix of experiential reportage, personal storytelling, and fresh scientific discovery, Steven Johnson describes how the brain works-its chemicals, structures, and subroutines-and how these systems connect to the day-to-day realities of individual lives. For a hundred years, he says, many of us have assumed that the most powerful route to self-knowledge took the form of lying on a couch, talking about our childhoods. The possibility entertained in this book is that you can follow another path, in which learning about the brain's mechanics can widen one's self-awareness as powerfully as any therapy or meditation or drug. In Mind Wide Open, Johnson embarks on this path as his own test subject, participating in a battery of attention tests, learning to control video games by altering his brain waves, scanning his own brain with a $2 million fMRI machine, all in search of a modern answer to the oldest of questions: who am I? Along the way, Johnson explores how we "read" other people, how the brain processes frightening events (and how we might rid ourselves of the scars those memories leave), what the neurochemistry is behind love and sex, what it means that our brains are teeming with powerful chemicals closely related to recreational drugs, why music moves us to tears, and where our breakthrough ideas come from. Johnson's clear, engaging explanation of the physical functions of the brain reveals not only the broad strokes of our aptitudes and fears, our skills and weaknesses and desires, but also the momentary brain phenomena that a whole human life comprises. Why, when hearing a tale of woe, do we sometimes smile inappropriately, even if we don't want to? Why are some of us so bad at remembering phone numbers but brilliant at recognizing faces? Why does depression make us feel stupid? To read Mind Wide Open is to rethink family histories, individual fates, and the very nature of the self, and to see that brain science is now personally transformative-a valuable tool for better relationships and better living.

موضوع مستند نشده

Neuropsychology.

موضوع مستند نشده

Neurosciences.

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Self-perception.

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Brain-- physiology.

موضوع مستند نشده

Neurosciences.

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77.50 psychophysiology.

موضوع مستند نشده

Neuropsychology.

موضوع مستند نشده

Neurosciences.

موضوع مستند نشده

Neurowetenschappen.

موضوع مستند نشده

Self-perception.

موضوع مستند نشده

Zelfwaarneming.

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

شماره رده

شماره رده

شماره رده

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

کد سيستم

کد سيستم

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Johnson, Steven,1968-

تاريخ عمليات

20201203134021.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y