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Mind Wide Open
Your Brain And The Neuroscience Of Everyday Life
by Steven Johnson
ISBN: 0743241657
ISBN-13: 9780743241656
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
This pop science book suggests that to understand one's own mind, one should first understand one's own brain. Author Steven Johnson explains how the most recent theories in neuroscience have an impact on the way we think about thinking. He does more than simply put forward this idea: he actually puts it into practice by undergoing a series of neurological tests and connecting the results of these tests to how he was thinking and feeling at the time.
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"An enthusiastic invitation to explore your mind from science writer Johnson...who takes a lucid trip through the country's brain labs....Celebrates the brain's complexity and wonder even as it demonstrates that you can get to know your mind better than you ever thought."
-- Kirkus
"...[A]n often mindbending read." -- Gregory Mone
-- Popular Science
"It's the rare popular science book that not only gives the reader a gee-whiz glimpse at an emerging field, but also offers a guide for incorporating its new insights into one's own worldview....[F]ascinating, engaging written....Always considerate of his audience, Johnson weaves disparate strands of brain research and theory smoothly into the narrative...which leaves readers' minds more open than they were."
-- Publishers Weekly
"...[Steven Johnson] knows how to make complicated science clear and easy to follow, and his style is cheerful, honest, friendly, self-deprecating....As he explores his inner world and the mental modules that help to shape it, we begin to feel that we are right in there with him-and we have a new sense of what it means to be human....This is an entertaining and instructive ride inward to a place that looks less familiar the better we get to know it." -- Jonathan Weiner
-- New York Times Book Review
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published date: 2004
Size: 6.25 x 9 inches
Weight: 0.95 pounds
Pages: 288
Publisher's Notes
A tour of today's cutting-edge brain research challenges readers to reevaluate the essence of human personality and fate, explaining how the brain predicts and processes events, describing breakthroughs in biofeedback technology, citing the sources of creativity and ideas, and offering insight into brain neurochemistry.
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Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
Steven Johnson
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Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
Steven Johnson
[ Edition: first ]. Good Condition. Publisher: Scribner Pub Date: 1/27/2004 Binding: Hardcover Pages: 288 [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Torn pages: NO ] [ Broken Seams: NO ] [ Water Damage: MODERATE ] ( more information) Offered by BookHolders (United States)
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Mind Wide Open Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
Johnson, Steven
Scribner. As New in As New dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. No marks; looks new. ; 1.03 x 9.34 x 6.36 Inches; 288 pages; <P>BRILLIANTLY EXPLORING TODAY'S CUTTING-EDGE BRAIN RESEARCH, <I>MIND WIDE OPEN</I> IS AN UNPRECEDENTED JOURNEY INTO THE ESSENCE OF HUMAN PERSONALITY, ALLOWING READERS TO UNDERSTAND THEMSELVES AND THE PEOPLE IN THEIR LIVES AS NEVER BEFORE.<P>Using a mix of experiential reportage, personal storytelling, and fresh scientific discovery, Steven Johnson describes how the brain works -- its chemicals, structures, and subroutines -- and how these systems connect to the day-to-day realities of individual lives. For a hundred years, he says, many of us have assumed that the most powerful route to self-knowledge took the form of lying on a couch, talking about our childhoods. The possibility entertained in this book is that you can follow another path, in which learning about the brain's mechanics can widen one's self-awareness as powerfully as any therapy or meditation or drug.<P>In <I>Mind Wide Open,</I> Johnson embarks on this path as his own test subject, participating in a battery of attention tests, learning to control video games by altering his brain waves, scanning his own brain with a $2 million fMRI machine, all in search of a modern answer to the oldest of questions: who am I?<P>Along the way, Johnson explores how we "read" other people, how the brain processes frightening events (and how we might rid ourselves of the scars those memories leave), what the neurochemistry is behind love and sex, what it means that our brains are teeming with powerful chemicals closely related to recreational drugs, why music moves us to tears, and where our breakthrough ideas come from.<P>John son's clear, engaging explanation of the physical functions of the brain reveals not only the broad strokes of our aptitudes and fears, our skills and weaknesses and desires, but also the momentary brain phenomena that a whole human life comprises. Why, when hearing a tale of woe, do we sometimes smile inappropriately, even if we don't want to? Why are some of us so bad at remembering phone numbers but brilliant at recognizing faces? Why does depression make us feel stupid?<P>To read <I>Mind Wide Open</I> is to rethink family histories, individual fates, and the very nature of the self, and to see that brain science is now personally transformative -- a valuable tool for better relationships and better living.<P> . ( more information) Offered by Squire Books (United States)
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Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
Johnson, Steven
Very Good. Excellent condition hardcover with original dustjacket. Dustjacket in excellent condition with no rips or tears. No notes or highlighting. Ships immediately from Canada. Guaranteed to be in stock. "No suprises, No regrets." ( more information) Offered by Michael Bumstead (Canada)
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Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life [Hardcover
Mind Wide Open
2004 softcover copy as pictured (Scribner), 274 pp. Cover clean, spine tight. Pages clean. Moderate cover edge wear. Good reading copy. Ships now. SB ( more information) Offered by J. M. Thomasson (United States)
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Mind Wide Open
Johnson, Steven
Scribners, 2004 Second Printing. VG/VG. . Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by McLean's Book Shop (United States)
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MIND WIDE OPEN
JOHNSON, STEVEN
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Mind Wide Open: Your Brain And The Neuroscience Of Everyday Life
Johnson, Steven
Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Scribners. New Book/New Book. 2004. Reprint. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0743241657 This book is a lucid and engaging travelogue from the frontiers of human brain science. Steven Johnson has an eye for the most interesting new ideas in this exploding field, and he explains them with insight and gusto. . ( more information) Offered by The Book Nook (Canada)
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