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Betty Edwards (born April 21, 1926) is an American art teacher and author best known for her 1979 book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (as of April 2012, in its 4th edition). [1] She taught and did research at the California State University, Long Beach, [2] until she retired in the late 1990s. While there, she founded the Center for the ...
978-0374275631. OCLC. 706020998. Thinking, Fast and Slow is a 2011 popular science book by psychologist Daniel Kahneman. The book's main thesis is a differentiation between two modes of thought: "System 1" is fast, instinctive and emotional; "System 2" is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The book delineates rational and non-rational ...
The metaphor " stream of consciousness " suggests how thoughts seem to flow through the conscious mind. Research studies have shown that humans only experience one mental event at a time as a fast-moving mind-stream. [1][2][3] The term was coined by Alexander Bain in 1855 in the first edition of The Senses and the Intellect, when he wrote, "The ...
Stanislas Dehaene extended the global workspace with the "neuronal avalanche" showing how sensory information gets selected to be broadcast throughout the cortex. [12] Many brain regions, the prefrontal cortex, anterior temporal lobe, inferior parietal lobe, and the precuneus all send and receive numerous projections to and from a broad variety of distant brain regions, allowing the neurons ...
Summary. Description Your Brain Health and the Workplace.webm. English: Epidemiology and surveillance studies have identified shift work as a risk factor for diseases involving the blood vessels. In particular, shift work has been associated with stroke, but what aspect of shift work is the cause is unknown because shift work is an umbrella ...
Brian Tracy is a Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development author. [2][3] He is the author of over eighty books that have been translated into dozens of languages. [4] His popular books are Earn What You're Really Worth, [5] Eat That Frog!, No Excuses!
Carl Zimmer (born 1966) is a popular science writer, blogger, columnist, and journalist who specializes in the topics of evolution, parasites, and heredity.The author of many books, he contributes science essays to publications such as The New York Times, Discover, and National Geographic.
The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World is a 2021 book of neuroscience, epistemology and metaphysics written by psychiatrist, thinker and former literary scholar [1] Iain McGilchrist. Following on from McGilchrist's 2009 work, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western ...