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The Brain: A User's Guide
Congratulations! You're the proud owner of the most complex information processing device in the known universe. The human brain comes equipped with all sorts of useful design features, but also many bugs and weaknesses. Problem is you don't get an owner's manual. You have to just plug and play.
As a result, most of us never properly understand how our brains work and what they're truly capable of. We fail get the best out of them, ignore some of their most useful features and struggle to overcome their design faults.
Until now, that is.
Featuring witty essays, enlightening infographics and fascinating "try this at home" experiments, New Scientist take you on a journey through intelligence, memory, creativity, the unconscious and beyond. From the strange ways to distort what we think of as "reality" to the brain hacks that can improve memory, The Brain: A User's Guide will help you understand your brain and show you how to use it to its full potential.
Book Details
- Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
- Publish Date: Oct 23rd, 2018
- Pages: 320
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.90in - 7.60in - 1.10in - 2.50lb
- EAN: 9781473685062
- Categories: • Life Sciences - Evolution• Natural History• Life Sciences - Neuroscience
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SEO Consultant at G-Squared Interactive focused on Google algorithm update recovery, technical SEO audits, and SEO training. Columnist at Search Engine Land.
Google merges its AI resources. Makes sense -> Google announces Google DeepMind, a new unit combining the DeepMind team and the Brain team from Google Research, with DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis as CEO & Jeff Dean as Chief Scientist https://t.co/4Wr6cRGRMK https://t.co/z7sy5GKexk
The Allen Institute is committed to solving mysteries of bioscience — researching the unknown of human biology, in the brain, the cell and the immune system.
"Everything that you do depends on the signals that neurons send to each other and how they are processed." Senior Scientist Kaspar Podgorski shares with @CTVnews how new tech is helping researchers unlock the mysteries of #neuroscience and the brain. https://t.co/IIjNjlKdE8