Making Up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World

Making Up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World


Yazar : Chris Frith
Yayınevi : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN : 9781405160223
Baskı yılı : 2007
Sayfa sayısı : 246
Ağırlık : 0.38 kg
Edisyon : 1
Stok durumu : Tükendi   

Written by one of the worlds leading neuroscientists, Making Up the Mind is the first accessible account of experimental studies showing how the brain creates our mental world. * Uses evidence from brain imaging, psychological experiments and studies of patients to explore the relationship between the mind and the brain * Demonstrates that our knowledge of both the mental and physical comes to us through models created by our brain * Shows how the brain makes communication of ideas from one mind to another possible
Prologue : real scientists dont study the mind 1
1 Clues from a damaged brain 21
2 What a normal brain tells us about the world 40
3 What the brain tells us about our bodies 61
4 Getting ahead by prediction 85
5 Our perception of the world is a fantasy that coincides with reality 111
6 How brains model minds 139
7 Sharing minds - how the brain creates culture 163
Epilogue : me and my brain 184