Idiot brain
Subtitle: what your head is really up to
By: Dean Burnett
Contributors: Burnett, Dean
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780393253788
Subjects: Neurosciences; Brain; Popular works; Consciousness; Memory
Description: "A delightful tour of our mysterious, mischievous gray matter from neuroscientist and massively popular Guardian blogger Dean Burnett,"--NoveList.
Notes: "First published in Great Britain by Guardian Books and Faber and Faber Limited under the title The idiot brain: a neuroscientist explains what your head is really up to"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Mind controls: how the brain regulates the body, and usually makes a mess of things; title: The gift of memory (keep the receipt): the human memory system, and its strange features; title: Fear: nothing to be scared of: the many ways in which the brain makes us constantly afraid; title: Think you're clever, do you?: the baffling and complex science of intelligence; title: Did you see this chapter coming?: the haphazard properties of the brain's observational systems; title: Personality: a testing concept: the complex and confusing properties of personality; title: Group hug!: how the brain is influenced by other people; title: When the brain breaks down... mental health problems, and how they come about; title: Afterword.