Idiot brain : what your head is really up to, Dean Burnett

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Idiot brain : what your head is really up to, Dean Burnett

Title remainder

what your head is really up to

Statement of responsibility

Dean Burnett

Instantiates

• Idiot brain : what your head is really up to

Publication

• New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 2016

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

Introduction -- Mind controls: how the brain regulates the body, and usually makes a mess of things -- The gift of memory (keep the receipt): the human memory system, and its strange features -- Fear: nothing to be scared of: the many ways in which the brain makes us constantly afraid -- Think you're clever, do you?: the baffling and complex science of intelligence -- Did you see this chapter coming?: the haphazard properties of the brain's observational systems -- Personality: a testing concept: 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

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ocn921868676

Dimensions

25 cm

Edition

First American edition.

Extent

328 pages

Isbn

9780393253788

Lccn

2016009451

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unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

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• n

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u224678

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• (Sirsi) i9780393253788
• (OCoLC)921868676