| Description |
294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
A leading neuroscientist and a noted puzzle designer team up to reveal how solving puzzles improves one's brain function, giving readers the chance to work puzzles while learning how to boost their brain. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-288) and index. |
| Contents |
Memory. Working memory : brain juggling -- Long-term memory : imagining the future by remembering the past -- Perception. Perceptual skill learning : the sommelier and the hockey player -- Visual thinking : seeing, not just looking -- Spatial thinking : the challenge of mental rotation -- Listening : the foley artist and the cocktail party -- Motor skill learning : of mental maps and pickpockets -- Time : clock time vs. brain time -- Cognition. Thinking in words : the hammer, the saw, and the hatchet -- Logic : reasoning in uncertain situations -- Emotions and thinking : the anger superiority effect -- Mathematics : doing the numbers at the checkout line -- Illusions : shadows, balls, and rotating snakes -- Creativity : the magic matches of Carlo Reverberi. |
| Subject |
Cognitive neuroscience.
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Puzzles.
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Thought and thinking -- Problems, exercises, etc.
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| Added Author |
Kim, Scott.
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| ISBN |
9781594487774 |
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1594487774 |
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