![]() ![]() This is lucid, funny and smart: in short, the best kind of popular science. alcohol can sometimes improve your memory?ĭean 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.the way the brain's processing works means that time really does fly if you're having fun?. ![]() the brain's limitations mean you really can miss something that's right under your nose?.conspiracy theories and superstitions stem from your brain's insistence that the world isn't random?.stress can actually increase your performance at a task?.In The Idiot Brain, Dean 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. It's undeniably impressive, but it's far from perfect, and these imperfections influence everything that humans say, do and experience. Expertly researched and entertainingly written, this book is for everyone who has. The brain may be the seat of consciousness and the engine of all human experience, but it's also messy, fallible and disorganized. In Idiot Brain, neuroscientist Dean Burnett celebrates blind spots, blackouts, insomnia, and all the other downright laughable things our minds do to us, while also exposing the many mistakes weve made in our quest to understand how our brains actually work. ![]()
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