How the Brain Works: The Facts Visually Explained (How Things Work)

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Take a tour with a friendly professor who will introduce you to your very own garden of learning delights, your memory warehouse, your art gallery of emotions. We at Penguin Random House Australia acknowledge that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are the Traditional Custodians and the first storytellers of the lands on which we live and work. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. Và bởi vì thông tin mới trong cuốn này được liên kết với những gì các bạn đã biết trước đó (trong cuốn How the body works) sẽ giúp bạn nhớ lâu hơn và thích thú hơn khi đọc.

It reveals something rather magical: how tiny tweaks to your behaviour can be all you need to deliver a big, sometimes thrilling, reboot to your life.I’m not a huge fan of the tone and things are not always written “for dummies” like you’d want it to, but it’s a great reference book you can use as a complement in your journey to understand how the brain works.

And you would think the topic of the brain written in plain-as English, with diagrams, easily relevant anecdotes, it would be very accessible and easy to read. From the senses to sleep, memories to making decisions, this book brings the wonder of brains and brain science to life. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. From the strange ways to distort what we think of as 'reality' to the brain hacks that can improve memory, The Brain takes you on a journey through intelligence, memory, creativity, the unconscious and beyond to help you understand your brain - and show you what it's truly capable of. Instantly more informed and able to understand further information with a good foundation,” perhaps.Even though this book claimed to help its readers learn about how our brains work, much of the science of how brains work, such as the different parts and the process of signal transduction, only occupy around 20 percent of the book. Most of the book, though, were theories on controversial subjects, such as the purpose of emotion, if the IQ of the human population is indeed declining, and the differences between male and female brains, with experiment results that were contradictory and in the end, rather inconclusive. From the way it controls and regulates our bodily functions to the mysterious complexities of the mind this book covers all facets in a very informative and graphical way that I found a most interesting read.

Tóm lại là một cuốn sách hay, bổ ích, thú vị và ko hề dễ chán như các tựa sách hàn lâm khác về chủ đề này. The Brain: The Story of You by David Eagleman – This is not the most detailed book about the brain out there, but it did become a bestseller for a reason.

Và tiếp tục là một cuốn sách 5 sao nữa hoàn toàn xứng đáng với khối lượng đồ sộ kiến thức mà nó cung cấp. How The Brain Works takes the reader from the physiology of the brain through to its processes – such as what happens in the brain while we sleep – and on to traumas, diseases and psychological conditions. this sorta just confirmed that i love neuroscience more than anything in the entire universe and that i will study it even if it’s the last thing i do. For me, even without my degree, this was a fairly simplistic view of the brain — “instant expert” isn’t quite what you’d become from reading it, I’d feel. Greg Gage is an NIH-award winning neuroscientist and cofounder of Backyard Brains—an organization that develops open source tools that allow amateurs and students to participate in neural discovery.