Name: The Secret Life of the Mind: How Your Brain Thinks, Feels, and Decides
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Author: Sigman, Mariano
ISBN: 9780316549622

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The Secret Life of the Mind: How Your Brain Thinks, Feels, and Decides

Type

Physical Book

Author

Mariano Sigman

Publisher

Little, Brown Spark

Year

2017

Language

English

Pages

288

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.6x15x2.8 cm

Weight

0.39 kg.

ISBN13

9780316549622

Synopsis "The Secret Life of the Mind: How Your Brain Thinks, Feels, and Decides "

From a world-renowned leader in neuroscience, a provocative, enthralling journey into the depths of the human mind. Where do our thoughts come from? How do we make choices and trust our judgments? What is the role of the unconscious? Can we manipulate our dreams? In this mind-bending international bestseller, award-winning neuroscientist Mariano Sigman explores the complex answers to these and many other age-old questions. Over the course of his 20-year career investigating the inner workings of the human brain, Dr. Sigman has cultivated a remarkable interdisciplinary vision. He draws on research in physics, linguistics, psychology, education, and beyond to explain why people who speak more than one language are less prone to dementia; how infants can recognize by sight objects they've previously only touched; how babies, even before they utter their first word, have an innate sense of right and wrong; and how we can read the thoughts of vegetative patients by decoding patterns in their brain activity. Building on the author's awe-inspiring TED talk, the cutting-edge research presented in The Secret Life of the Mind revolutionizes how we understand the role that neuroscience plays in our lives, unlocking the mysterious cerebral processes that control the ways in which we learn, reason, feel, think, and dream.

Mariano Sigman

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Mariano Sigman earned his PhD in neuroscience in New York and was a researcher in Paris before returning to Argentina. He currently resides in Spain. He is an international reference in decision neuroscience, neuroscience and education, and human communication neuroscience. He is one of the directors of the Human Brain Project, the world's most extensive effort to understand and emulate the human brain. He worked with magicians, chefs, chess players, musicians, and visual artists to relate neuroscience to various aspects of human culture.

Additionally, he has developed an extensive career in scientific dissemination that includes columns in major radio and television programs in the country, hundreds of articles in various foreign print media. In 2015, he published The Secret Life of the Mind in Debate, translated into a dozen languages.

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