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Mind Hacks: Tips and Tricks for Using Your Brain is a book using cognitive neuroscience to present experiments, tricks, and tips related to aspects of the brain by Tom Stafford and Matt Webb. The book was published by O'Reilly in November 2004 as part of the O'Reilly Hacks series.
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.
Konnikova helps the reader conceptualize acts of memory formation, retention and retrieval by borrowing Holmes's problem solving metaphor: the brain attic. If the brain is an attic, with finite space, then each bit of information placed there needs to be chosen carefully, organized and stored in a way that is both useful and accessible.
Cold reading is a set of techniques used by mentalists, psychics, fortune-tellers, and mediums. [1] Without prior knowledge, a practiced cold-reader can quickly obtain a great deal of information by analyzing the person's body language, age, clothing or fashion, hairstyle, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, level of education, manner of speech, place of origin, etc. during a line ...
The book endorses phenomena related to psychosomatic medicine, placebo effects, near-death experiences, mystical experiences, and creative genius, to argue for a "strongly dualistic theory of mind and brain". [3] Irreducible Mind depicts the mind as an entity independent of the brain or body, with which it causally interacts and the death of ...
In this effort, the book cites past thinkers such as the Buddha and William James, and discusses research in the areas of neuroplasticity, mindfulness meditation and quantum physics, to support the concept of mental force as a force that can be developed and applied to exercise free will at the quantum level in the brain, to use the power of ...
Try tricking your brain into eating less with these 10 tips (no hypnosis necessary). In fact, it might be as easy as changing the color of your tablecloths, or replacing a couple of plates in your ...
The Society of Mind is both the title of a 1986 book and the name of a theory of natural intelligence as written and developed by Marvin Minsky. [ 1 ] In his book of the same name, Minsky constructs a model of human intelligence step by step, built up from the interactions of simple parts called agents , which are themselves mindless.