Mind Hacks: Tips & Tools for Using Your Brain
The brain is a fearsomely complex information-processing environment--one that often eludes our ability to understand it. At any given time, the brain is collecting, filtering, and analyzing information and, in response, performing countless intricate processes, some of which are automatic, some voluntary, some conscious, and some unconscious.Cognitive neuroscience is one of the ways we have to understand the workings of our minds. It's the study of the brain biology behind our mental functions: a collection of methods--like brain scanning and computational modeling--combined with a way of looking at psychological phenomena and discovering…
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Weitere Autoren: Webb, Matt
- ISBN: 978-0-596-00779-9
- EAN: 9780596007799
- Produktnummer: 1327962
- Verlag: Oreilly Media
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 363 S.
- Masse: H22.7 cm x B15.4 cm x D2.7 cm 553 g
- Gewicht: 553
Über den Autor
Tom Stafford has a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience and is currently a research associate in the Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield. He is also an associate editor of the Psychologist magazine and has previously worked as a freelance writer and researcher for the BBC.Matt Webb's background is in new media. His freelance activities include an IM interface to Google, which predated the Google API and is included in O Reilly s Google Hacks. He launched a project to find the Web's favorite color that was featured on BBC News Online and national newspapers in the UK. His current job in R&D at the BBC involves these kinds of projects internally, and gives him experience at addressing abstract social and technological ideas to mixed audiences. He was a popular speaker at O Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference in 2004.
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