Mind Myths: Exploring Popular Assumptions About the Mind and Brain - Couverture souple

 
9780471983033: Mind Myths: Exploring Popular Assumptions About the Mind and Brain
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ISBN 10 : 0471983039 ISBN 13 : 9780471983033
Editeur : Wiley, 1999

Synopsis

Currently there is a gap between what scientists know aboutthe mindand brain and the assumptions that others draw from sources ofeveryday information such as newspapers, popular press andtelevision. Mind Myths attempts to close this gap by bringingtogether top international neuroscientists and psychologists toprovide a fascinating and scientifically reliable insight into theneuropsychological and cognitive phenomena that are frequentlyreported in the media. A multitude of mind myth topics are tackled, for example
* the resuscitation from coma thanks to a patient's avourite songs
* the creativity of the right hemisphere
* the false memory syndrome
* the placebo effect
* learning while sleeping
"Mind Myths...includes the remarkably persistent fallacy that weonly ever use 10% of our brains, the assumption that our rightbrains function as artistic hippies and our left as desiccatedaccountants ...the book is written in a lively style and will, Ihope, be read widely by science journalists, and others who helpperpetuate the various myths... an excellent focus for anundergraduate seminar, providing a stimulating bridge between thepsychological laboratory and the rather untilled field of folkpsychology." From the Foreword by Alan Baddeley

This unique book will appeal to professionals and students acrossthe psychology and science disciplines and anyone else with aninterest in how the brain works in everyday situations.

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À propos de l?auteur

Professor Sergio Della Sala FBPsS, FRSA, FRSE is a neuropsychologist. Della Sala was Professor of Neuropsychology and Honorary Consultant in Neurology at the University of Aberdeen from January 1994 to March 2004. As of June 2017, he is with the University of Edinburgh. He has been the editor of Cortex since 2001.

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Éditeur
Wiley
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0471983039
ISBN 13 
9780471983033
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
311
Éditeur
Della Sala Sergio
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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