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- Neurologic : the brain's hidden rationale behind our irrational behavior / by Sternberg, Eliezer J.(CARDINAL)482369;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Our unconscious logic -- What do the blind see when they dream? -- Can zombies drive to work? -- Can your imagination make you a better athlete? -- Can we remember things that never happened? -- Why do people believe in alien abductions? -- Why do schizophrenics hear voices? -- Can someone be hypnotized to commit murder? -- Why can't split personalities share prescription glasses? -- Appendix: Maps of the brain.From bizarre dreams and hallucinations to schizophrenia and multiple personalities, the human brain is responsible for a diverse spectrum of strange thoughts and behaviors. From the outside, these phenomena are written off as being just zcrazy,y but what if they were actually planned and logical? NeuroLogic explores the brains internal system of reasoning, from its unconscious depths to conscious decision-making, and how it explains our most outlandish as well as our most stereotyped behaviors. Drawing on current research in neuroscience and fascinating neurological cases, Eliezer J. Sternberg explores questions such as: · What do the blind see when they dream? · Why do people believe in alien abductions? · Why do schizophrenics hear voices? From sleepwalking murderers, contagious yawning, and the brains of sports fans to false memories, subliminal messages, and the secret of ticklishness, youll find that theres a pattern to the way the brain interprets the worlda pattern that fits the brains unique logic. Unraveling this pattern and the various ways it can be disturbed will alter not only our view of mental illness and supernatural experience but also shed light on the hidden parts of ourselves.- Subjects: Cognitive neuroscience.; Neuropsychology.; Subconsciousness.; Perception (Philosophy);
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- Reading in the brain : the science and evolution of a human invention / by Dehaene, Stanislas.(CARDINAL)374931;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-375) and index.In this riveting investigation, Stanislas Dehaene provides an accessible account of the brain circuitry of reading and explores what he calls the "reading paradox": Our cortex is the product of millions of years of evolution in a world without writing, so how did it adapt to recognize words?- Subjects: Reading, Psychology of.; Reading;
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