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Mindwise by Nicholas Epley
epub |eng | 2014-02-10 | Author:Nicholas Epley [Epley, Nicholas]

TOO MUCH FROM TOO LITTLE Brilliant statisticians can look stupid when they conduct analyses on incomplete data. Four days before the 1936 U.S. presidential election, having polled 2.4 million Americans, ...
( Category: Interpersonal Relations March 26,2014 )
Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant by Tammet Daniel
MOBI, mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:Tammet, Daniel [Tammet, Daniel]

7 Ticket to Kaunas My parents always expected that I would go to university. They supported me steadfastly throughout my studies and were proud of my academic success. Both my ...
( Category: General March 26,2014 )
This Explains Everything by John Brockman
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-12-27 | Author:John Brockman

THE LIMITS OF INTUITION BRIAN ENO Artist; composer; musician; recording producer, U2, Coldplay, Talking Heads, Paul Simon We sometimes tend to think that ideas and feelings arising from our intuition ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology March 25,2014 )
The Hidden Brain by Shankar Vedantam
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Shankar Vedantam

CHAPTER 7 The Tunnel Terrorism, Extremism, and the Hidden Brain I want to return to Will DeRiso and the people trapped in the World Trade Center, and use this chapter ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology March 25,2014 )
On the nature of consciousness: cognitive, phenomenological, and transpersonal perspectives by Harry T. Hunt
mobi | | 1995-12-14 | Author:Harry T. Hunt

But you see, we are playing a game. The game runs like this: the only thing you really know is what you can put into words. Let's suppose I love ...
( Category: Cognitive March 25,2014 )
Gut Feelings by Gerd Gigerenzer
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2007-07-01 | Author:Gerd Gigerenzer

Since the first reason already allows for a decision, the search for further information is stopped, all other potential reasons are ignored, and the parents go for alternative A. On ...
( Category: Anatomy March 25,2014 )
Intelligence in Nature by Jeremy Narby
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-03-02 | Author:Jeremy Narby

TRANSFORMERS AND TRANSFORMATION kept cropping up during this investigation. My hunch is that part of nature’s essence is to transform itself, to evolve. The beings of this world seem driven ...
( Category: Shamanism March 25,2014 )
Human by Gazzaniga Michael S
mobi |eng | 2008-06-23 | Author:Gazzaniga, Michael S. [Gazzaniga, Michael S.]

Does Music Affect Our Thinking Abilities? Spatial abilities are used to create, think of, remember, and change visual images in one’s mind. For instance, looking at a two-dimensional map and ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology March 25,2014 )
Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged From Matter by Terrence W. Deacon
mobi |eng | 2011-11-21 | Author:Terrence W. Deacon

AUTOGENS This complementarity of morphodynamic processes can produce far more than merely the creation of a kind of molecular bottle. Their reciprocity produces a special kind of emergent stability, unavailable ...
( Category: Phenomenology March 25,2014 )
I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas R. Hofstadter
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:Douglas R. Hofstadter

Entwined Feedback Loops To explore in a concrete fashion the idea of two strange loops coexisting in one head, let’s start with a mild variation on our old TV metaphor. ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology March 25,2014 )
The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Norman Doidge

What these “imaginary” experiments show is how truly integrated imagination and action are, despite the fact that we tend to think of imagination and action as completely different and subject ...
( Category: Neurology March 25,2014 )
The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain by Tali Sharot
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2011-06-14 | Author:Tali Sharot

The “Survivor” Dilemma The answer is complex. This is because the value of anticipation is not the only factor that determines when we decide to indulge. There is at least ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
The Mind and the Brain by Jeffrey M. Schwartz
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-10-18 | Author:Jeffrey M. Schwartz

The motor cortex, you’ll recall, is arranged like a little homunculus. But it is hardly a static layout. From day to day and even moment to moment, the motor cortex ...
( Category: Neuropsychology March 25,2014 )
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-12-01 | Author:Iain McGilchrist

THE ROMANS Most of the great legacy of Rome's literature belongs to the Augustan era, the first century BC, with Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Propertius and Catullus all writing during a ...
( Category: Anatomy March 25,2014 )
The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life by Robert Trivers
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-01 | Author:Robert Trivers

THE US APPROACH TO SAFETY HELPS CAUSE 9/11 The tragedy of 9/11 had many fathers. But few have been as consistent in this role as the airlines themselves, at least ...
( Category: Developmental Biology March 25,2014 )

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