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Title details for The Secret Life of the Mind by Mariano Sigman, , PhD - Available

The Secret Life of the Mind

How Your Brain Thinks, Feels, and Decides

by Mariano Sigman, , PhD
John Chancer
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Where do our thoughts come from? How do we make choices and trust our judgments? What is the role of the unconscious? Can we manipulate our dreams? In this mind-bending international bestseller, award-winning neuroscientist Mariano Sigman explores the complex answers to these and many other age-old questions. Drawing on research in physics, linguistics, psychology, education, and more, Dr. Sigman explains why people who speak more than one language are less prone to dementia, how infants can recognize by sight objects they've previously only touched, how babies - even before they utter their first word - have an innate sense of right and wrong, and how we can read the thoughts of vegetative patients by decoding patterns in their brain activity. The cutting-edge research presented in The Secret Life of the Mind revolutionizes how we understand the role that neuroscience plays in our lives, unlocking the mysterious cerebral processes that control the ways in which we learn, reason, fee l, think, and dream.

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  • Release date

    November 7, 2017

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      • ISBN: 9781666601855
      • File size: 236150 KB
      • Duration: 08:11:58

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      John Chancer's clear, evenhanded narration of this audiobook about the workings of the human brain matches the disarming tone established by the author, a physicist and neuroscientist. The author unearths some surprises: Bilingual couples argue more rationally when they converse in their non-native tongue, bad news and good news are processed in different sides of the brain, children who grow up in supportive environments develop larger more complex brains than those who don't, and people can be made more trusting by increasing the brain's oxytocin levels. But for some listeners, the biggest takeaway may be that the brain operates independently of our consciousness, making decisions before we "decide," deliberately ignoring aspects of the future in order to create an optimistic present, and building a sense of confidence based on a flawed desire to confirm what we already believe. R.W.S. © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine

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