Idiot brain : what your head is really up to / Dean Burnett.
By: Burnett, Dean.
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2016Edition: First American edition.Description: 328 pages.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780393253788.Subject(s): Consciousness -- Popular works | Brain -- Popular works | Neurosciences -- Popular works | Memory -- Popular worksGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Mind controls : how the brain regulates the body, and usually makes a mess of things -- Memories are made of this (some assembly required) : the human memory system, and its strange features -- We have nothing to fear but fear itself, and clowns : the many ways in which the brain makes us constantly scared -- Think you're clever, do you? : the baffling and complex science of intelligence -- You see this chapter coming? : the haphazard properties of the brain's observational systems -- You say you have a 'great personality', but how can you be sure? : 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.