The playful brain the surprising science of how puzzles improve your mind
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.
| Main Author: | Restak, Richard M., 1942- |
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| Other Authors: | Kim, Scott. |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Riverhead Books,
2010.
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Table of 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.