How the Brain Works: The Facts Visually Explained (How Things Work)

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Take a tour with a friendly professor who will introduce you to your very own garden of learning delights, your memory warehouse, your art gallery of emotions. The most precious thing that a person possesses in his life is his brain, which is distinguished from all other organs by features that exceed the imagination of man himself.

Using simple classroom rulers and a clever technique, readers can determine how long it takes the brain to make decisions. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. There is a suggestion that the best way to retrieve information that has been just learned is to take a nap! It reveals something rather magical: how tiny tweaks to your behaviour can be all you need to deliver a big, sometimes thrilling, reboot to your life.As an expert on the science of productivity, Charles knows the secrets to speeding up innovation and creativity. How The Brain Works takes the reader from the physiology of the brain through to its processes – such as what happens in the brain while we sleep – and on to traumas, diseases and psychological conditions. MIT Press Direct is a distinctive collection of influential MIT Press books curated for scholars and libraries worldwide.

We will no doubt make great strides in the decades ahead but will we ever replicate it completely, doubtful. Collaborating with authors, instructors, booksellers, librarians, and the media is at the heart of what we do as a scholarly publisher.Overall I felt like I was reading articles from a weekend newspaper magazine supplement, or a lifestyle type magazine. This book has everything; it goes through the brain’s functional processes of anatomy, consciousness, dreams, manipulation, blood circulation - to name a few - all told visually as if it were a PowerPoint presentation.