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Brainworks: The Mind-bending Science of How You See, What You Think, and Who You Are
by Michael S. Sweeney
Book Language: English
ISBN-10: 1426207573
Pages: 224
File Type: Pdf
File Size: 145.69 MB


Admit it. When you hear the word neuroscience, you expect something abstract and remote, very complex, of little practical value. But this time...its personal.

In a highly anticipated, three-part series airing on the National Geographic Channel in Fall 2011, National Geographics Brainworks makes YOU the test subject in an array of astonishing challenges and experiments. Your brain will be stimulated, fooled, and ultimately amazed, as scientists and other experts show you how this three-pound blob of gray matter effectively makes you, you.

The television program brings together a crack team of scientists and researchers from a wide range of fields, including neurology, psychology, and opthamology. Awareness expert Dan Simons and memory expert Elizabeth Loftus are just two of the notables who lend their considerable brainpower to this unprecedented project. The program also draws on the know-how of those who traffic in brain tricksillusionists such as David Copperfield and Apollo Robbins and artists such as color expert Beau Lottoto bring each mind-bending illusion to life.

The captivating companion book further messes with your head through the visual illusions discovered and perfected by masters of fine art as well as through deceptively simple illustrations that are finely crafted by psychologists to highlight the way we take in and process the world around us.

In three sectionsSeeing, Thinking, and Beingyoull see for yourself why these visual illusions and experiments hoodwink the brain. Youll find out how the structure of the eye influences what you see. And youll think of events that may not have actually happened, in order to learn how the mind can create a false memory.

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