A Very Short Tour of the Mind
21 Short Walks Around the Human Brain
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What gives the human brain the creative ability that defines us all as individuals? Although the silicon version is hard on its heels, the brain remains the most remarkable computer in existence. Leading us through cognitive theory, neuroscience and Darwinian evolution with his trademark wit and wisdom, Michael Corballis explains what we know - and don't know - about our minds. How do we know if we're really the top dogs in brain power? Does our creativity stem solely from the right brain? From language to standing upright, composing music to bull, he uncovers our most common misconceptions and the fascinating habits and abilities that make us human.
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Perception marries academic rigor with mainstream accessibility. The research presented and the personalities profiled will show what it means to not only have, but be, your unique human body. The positive ramifications of viewing ourselves from this embodied perspective include greater athletic, academic, and professional achievement, more nourishing relationships, and greater personal well-being. The better we can understand what our bodies are - what they excel at, what they need, what they must avoid - the better we can live our lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The body-mind connection well explained
- De Lucy A. Pithecus en 12-11-22
De: Dennis Proffitt, y otros
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The Self Illusion
- Why There Is No "You" Inside Your Head
- De: Bruce Hood
- Narrado por: Bruce Hood
- Duración: 10 h y 20 m
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The Self Illusion provides a fascinating examination of how the latest science shows that our individual concept of a self is in fact an illusion. Most of us believe that we possess a self - an internal individual who resides inside our bodies, making decisions, authoring actions and possessing free will. The feeling that a single, unified, enduring self inhabits the body is compelling and inescapable. But that sovereignty of the self is increasingly under threat from science as our understanding of the brain advances.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De David R Pinsof en 05-10-12
De: Bruce Hood
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The Ravenous Brain
- How the New Science of Consciousness Explains Our Insatiable Search for Meaning
- De: Daniel Bor
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 11 h y 15 m
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Consciousness is our gateway to experience: it enables us to recognize Van Gogh’s starry skies, be enraptured by Beethoven’s Fifth, and stand in awe of a snowcapped mountain. Yet consciousness is subjective, personal, and famously difficult to examine: philosophers have for centuries declared this mental entity so mysterious as to be impenetrable to science. In The Ravenous Brain, neuroscientist Daniel Bor departs sharply from this historical view, and proposes a new model for how consciousness works.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Effectively demystifies consciousness
- De Gary en 11-18-12
De: Daniel Bor
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Bozo Sapiens
- Why to Err Is Human
- De: Michael Kaplan, Ellen Kaplan
- Narrado por: Victor Bevine
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
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Our species, it appears, is hardwired to get things wrong in myriad different ways. Why did recipients of a loan offer accept a higher rate of interest when a pretty woman's face was printed on the flyer? Why did one poll on immigration find the most despised aliens were ones from a group that did not exist? What made four of the Air Force's best pilots fly their planes, in formation, straight into the ground?
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5 out of 5 stars
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A tour de force
- De Ivan en 07-05-11
De: Michael Kaplan, y otros
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Out of Our Heads
- You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness
- De: Alva Noe
- Narrado por: Jay Snyder
- Duración: 6 h y 54 m
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Alva Noë is one of a new breed - part philosopher, part cognitive scientist, part neuroscientist - who are radically altering the study of consciousness by asking difficult questions and pointing out obvious flaws in the current science. In Out of Our Heads, he restates and reexamines the problem of consciousness, and then proposes a startling solution: Do away with the 200-year-old paradigm that places consciousness within the confines of the brain.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A bold, yet ultimately unsupported, hypothesis
- De Keith Pyne-Howarth en 01-17-10
De: Alva Noe
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The Bonobo and the Atheist
- De: Frans de Waal
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
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In this lively and illuminating discussion of his landmark research, esteemed primatologist Frans de Waal argues that human morality is not imposed from above but instead comes from within. Moral behavior does not begin and end with religion but is in fact a product of evolution. For many years, de Waal has observed chimpanzees soothe distressed neighbors and bonobos share their food. Now he delivers fascinating fresh evidence for the seeds of ethical behavior in primate societies that further cements the case for the biological origins of human fairness.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Great research on apes, bad research on humans
- De Christian Bonnell en 07-18-14
De: Frans de Waal
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The Mind Club
- Who Thinks, What Feels, and Why It Matters
- De: Daniel M. Wegner, Kurt Gray
- Narrado por: David Marantz
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
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Nothing seems more real than the minds of other people. When you consider what your boss is thinking or whether your spouse is happy, you are admitting them into the "mind club". It's easy to assume other humans can think and feel, but what about a cow, a computer, a corporation? What kinds of minds do they have? Daniel M. Wegner and Kurt Gray are award-winning psychologists who have discovered that minds - while incredibly important - are a matter of perception.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Who is the self in me? Am I part of something bigger?
- De Philomath en 03-24-16
De: Daniel M. Wegner, y otros
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A General Theory of Love
- De: Richard Lannon MD, Thomas Lewis MD, Fari Amini MD
- Narrado por: Chris Sorensen
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
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This original and lucid account of the complexities of love and its essential role in human well-being draws on the latest scientific research. Three eminent psychiatrists tackle the difficult task of reconciling what artists and thinkers have known for thousands of years about the human heart with what has only recently been learned about the primitive functions of the human brain.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great subject matter-hard to listen to
- De Laurel en 07-22-19
De: Richard Lannon MD, y otros
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Words and Rules
- The Ingredients of Language
- De: Steven Pinker
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 13 h y 59 m
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First published in 2000, Words and Rules remains one of Pinker's most provocative and accessible books, illuminating the fascinating relationship between the brain, the mind, and how language makes us humans.
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Amazing how much irregular verbs can teach.
- De Tristan en 04-10-16
De: Steven Pinker
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The Bilingual Brain
- And What It Tells Us About the Science of Language
- De: Albert Costa, John W. Schwieter - translator
- Narrado por: Luis Soto
- Duración: 6 h y 8 m
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How do two languages coexist in the same brain? Why is it possible to forget a language? What are the advantages and challenges of being bilingual? Over half of the world's population is bilingual, and yet this fascinating, complex ability is understood by few. In The Bilingual Brain, leading expert Albert Costa explores the science of language through a wide range of cutting-edge studies and examples from South Korea to Spain and Canada.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Brains make language and language makes brains
- De Andy P. en 08-25-20
De: Albert Costa, y otros
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Mind Wide Open
- Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
- De: Steven Johnson
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
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Brilliantly exploring today's cutting edge brain research, Mind Wide Open allows readers to understand themselves and the people in their lives as never before. Using a mix of experiential reportage, personal storytelling, and fresh scientific discovery, Steven Johnson describes how the brain works and how its systems connect to the day-to-day realities of individual lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A totally new perspective on life
- De Jonathan en 09-16-04
De: Steven Johnson
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The Age of Empathy
- Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society
- De: Frans de Waal
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 10 h y 1 m
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Is it really human nature to stab one another in the back in our climb up the corporate ladder? Competitive, selfish behavior is often explained away as instinctive, thanks to evolution and "survival of the fittest", but in fact, humans are equally hard-wired for empathy. Using research from the fields of anthropology, psychology, animal behavior, and neuroscience, Frans de Waal brilliantly argues that humans are group animals.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Lot Of Things In Common With Our Animal Friends!
- De James en 08-14-11
De: Frans de Waal
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Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
- De: Daniel C. Dennett
- Narrado por: Jeff Crawford
- Duración: 13 h y 22 m
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Over a storied career, Daniel C. Dennett has engaged questions about science and the workings of the mind. His answers have combined rigorous argument with strong empirical grounding. And a lot of fun. Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking offers seventy-seven of Dennett’s most successful “imagination-extenders and focus-holders” meant to guide you through some of life’s most treacherous subject matter: evolution, meaning, mind, and free will.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Loved it, but some philosophy background needed.
- De LongerILiveLessIKnow en 11-14-13
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Ha!
- The Science of When We Laugh and Why
- De: Scott Weems
- Narrado por: Kalen Allmandinger
- Duración: 7 h y 10 m
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Humor, like pornography, is famously difficult to define. We know it when we see it, but is there a way to figure out what we really find funnyand why? In this fascinating investigation into the science of humor and laughter, cognitive neuroscientist Scott Weems uncovers what’s happening in our heads when we giggle, guffaw, or double over with laughter. While we typically think of humor in terms of jokes or comic timing, in Ha! Weems proposes a provocative new model.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good place to start in the study of humor
- De Amazon Customer en 05-26-17
De: Scott Weems
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The Blank Slate
- The Modern Denial of Human Nature
- De: Steven Pinker
- Narrado por: Victor Bevine
- Duración: 22 h y 40 m
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In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind, explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Pinker argues that the dogma that the mind has no innate traits, denies our common humanity and our individual preferences, replaces objective analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans, and distorts our understanding of politics, violence, parenting, and the arts.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Don't bother. Outdated science & poor logic...
- De ejf211 en 03-31-10
De: Steven Pinker
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre A Very Short Tour of the Mind
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- Tim G.
- 10-08-17
great book
Great book. I highly recommend. especially for anyone who works in the education or therapy fields.
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- Christine Rose Elle
- 02-08-15
Pretty good.
This is exactly what the title says it is. A very short tour of the mind. It's essentially a collection of author Michael Corballis's magazine articles on subtopics related to mind and behavior.
The articles are fun, interesting and short. But be warned, they are 100% not suitable for individuals with a low tolerance for nerdy as hell puns.
I think my favorite part about Corballis's work in general is his evolutionary orientation. It's spot on. I for the life of me can't understand the resistance to evolutionary psychology. There's obviously really bad examples of evolutionary psychology (just like every other branch of science), but to reject the very idea of an evolutionary analysis of human cognition and behavior on principal (like many of its critics do) seems ultimately indefensible.
As far as I can figure, brains evolved just like everything else biological. Anyway don't get me started.
If you're a psych nerd you won't find anything here that you didn't already know, but what ever. I didn't learn much but I found value in the interesting presentation of the ideas and I more or less related to the articles as breezy little refresher snacks.
This is a fun little book, but if you're in the mood for deep, keep looking. Try some of Corballis's long form stuff like The Recursive Mind if that's what you're wanting.
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- nick parker
- 06-18-15
Quite interesting.
Easy to digest and interesting book that covers some interesting facts about human psychology.
Each section is good length to keep the dialogue moving and the book interesting
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- Kimberly A. Whittaker
- 12-24-16
Not what you expect
Given the image on the "cover" and the title, I thought this was a book about the brain. It is not.
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