Name: The Secret Life of the Mind: How Your Brain Thinks, Feels, and Decides
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Author: Sigman, Mariano
ISBN: 9780316549622

portada The Secret Life of the Mind: How Your Brain Thinks, Feels, and Decides

Type

Physical Book

Author

Mariano Sigman

Publisher

Little, Brown Spark

Year

2017

Language

English

Pages

288

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.6 x 15.0 x 2.8 cm

Weight

0.39 kg.

ISBN13

9780316549622

Synopsis "The Secret Life of the Mind: How Your Brain Thinks, Feels, and Decides"

From a world-renowned leader in neuroscience, a provocative, enthralling journey into the depths of the human mind. Where do our thoughts come from? How do we make choices and trust our judgments? What is the role of the unconscious? Can we manipulate our dreams? In this mind-bending international bestseller, award-winning neuroscientist Mariano Sigman explores the complex answers to these and many other age-old questions. Over the course of his 20-year career investigating the inner workings of the human brain, Dr. Sigman has cultivated a remarkable interdisciplinary vision. He draws on research in physics, linguistics, psychology, education, and beyond to explain why people who speak more than one language are less prone to dementia; how infants can recognize by sight objects they've previously only touched; how babies, even before they utter their first word, have an innate sense of right and wrong; and how we can read the thoughts of vegetative patients by decoding patterns in their brain activity. Building on the author's awe-inspiring TED talk, the cutting-edge research presented in The Secret Life of the Mind revolutionizes how we understand the role that neuroscience plays in our lives, unlocking the mysterious cerebral processes that control the ways in which we learn, reason, feel, think, and dream.

Mariano Sigman

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Mariano Sigman obtuvo su doctorado en neurociencia en Nueva York y fue investigador en París antes de volver a la Argentina. Actualmente reside en España. Es un referente internacional en neurociencia de las decisiones, en neurociencia y educación, y en neurociencia de la comunicación humana. Es uno de los directores del Human Brain Project, el esfuerzo más vasto del mundo por entender y emular el cerebro humano. Trabajó con magos, cocineros, ajedrecistas, músicos y artistas plásticos para relacionar la neurociencia con distintos aspectos de la cultura humana.

Además, ha desarrollado una extensa carrera de divulgación científica que incluye columnas en las principales radios y programas de televisión del país, cientos de artículos en distintos medios gráficos del exterior. En 2015 publicó en Debate La vida secreta de la mente, traducido a una decena de idiomas.

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