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100 1 $aBurnett, Dean,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe idiot brain :$ba neuroscientist explains what your head is really up to /$cDean Burnett.
250 $a[Canadian] hardcover edition.
264 1 $aToronto, Ontario, Canada :$bHarperCollins Publishers Ltd,$c2016.
264 4 $c©2016
300 $aviii, 328 pages . ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 305-320) and index.
520 0 $aDean Burnett celebrates the downright laughable things our minds do to us, as well as exposing the fact that people are often way off in their thinking about how the brain works. For example, did you know that: your memory is egotistical? Conspiracy theories and superstitions stem from your brain's insistence that the world isn't random? Dean Burnett's unpredictable and entertaining first book explores the unexpected side of everyday life, highlighting where conventional thinking is wrong and how our brains trip us up at every turn. This is lucid, funny and smart: in short, the best kind of popular science.
505 0 $aMind controls : how the brain regulates the body, and usually makes a mess of things -- The gift of memory (keep the receipt) : the human memory system, and its strange features -- Fear : nothing to be scared of : the many ways in which the brain makes us constantly afraid -- Think you're clever, do you? : the baffling science of intelligence -- Did you see this chapter coming? : the haphazard properties of the brain's observational systems -- Personality : a testing concept : the complex and confusing properties of personality -- Group hug! : how the brain is influenced by other people -- When the brain breaks down... : Mental health problems, and how they come about.
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