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The Secret Life of the Mind
- How Our Brain Thinks, Feels and Decides
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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Summary
A vast yet compact view of cognitive neuroscience, a groundbreaking, personal and comprehensive guide into understanding our thoughts.
In the last 20 years, Mariano Sigman has journeyed to the core of the brain, an organ formed by nearly an infinity of neurons that manufacture how we perceive, reason, feel, dream and communicate.
After more than two decades of research, he has zoomed out from a thorough excursion to the neurons to seeing the brain from afar, where thoughts begin to take shape. And at this point, where psychology meets neuroscience, The Secret Life of the Mind combines the astonishing work of biologists, physicists, mathematicians, psychologists, anthropologists, linguists, engineers, philosophers and medical doctors - not to forget cooks, magicians, musicians, chess players, writers and artists. It is an astonishing synthesis of a life's expertise on the edge of science, for fans of Thinking, Fast and Slow.
Looking into how we forge ideas in our first days of life, how we shape the decisions that define us, why we dream and how years and years of formal and informal education change our brains, this book explores how we begin to understand even the smallest things that make up who and what we are.
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- Percy Q
- 28-01-19
Informative and interesting
I was sad when the last sentence came because I know there's more to be said! Enjoyed this listen immensely. The narrator's voice is a positive influence on the content. It reads like a great story, which in the end, is how the author describes how best to learn.
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- Emils Petracenoks
- 01-02-18
The best intro book into cognitive, neuro sciences
This book gives the best popular introdutcion into cognitive science, neuro science and behaviour theory.
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- Andrei
- 08-11-17
Brilliant
Brilliantly written and since I got the audio book beautifully narrated!
I strongly recommend this book
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- Swede
- 17-09-21
Making the world less wide and strange
This is a very interesting pop cognitive neuroscience book that explores the mind through a variety of topics. Took me a while to finish, but that's because I had to rewind and take notes to save all the golden info and insights. Excellent narration as well. I recommend this book for curious minds.
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