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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 612.82 EAN: 9781405160223 Edition: 1 ISBN: 1405160225 Label: Wiley-Blackwell Manufacturer: Wiley-Blackwell Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 248 Publication Date: May 08, 2007 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Studio: Wiley-Blackwell Related Items:
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Book Description: Inside your head there is an amazing labor-saving device; more effective than the latest high-tech computer. Your brain frees you from the everyday tasks of moving about in the world around you, allowing you to concentrate on the things that are important to you: making friends and influencing people. However, the 'you' that is released into this social world is also a construction of your brain. It is your brain that enables you to share your mental life with the people around you. Making up the Mind is the first accessible account of experimental studies showing how the brain creates our mental world. Using evidence from brain imaging, psychological experiments, and studies with patients, Chris Frith, one of the world's leading neuroscientists, explores the relationship between the mind and the brain. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Who's in charge?It's hard to resolve where the best place to encounter Chris Frith might be - a classroom, a pub, or a party. In this book, the last is set as a means of providing exchanges between a working cognitive neuroscientist and people from the humanities and other sciences - English and physics, in this case. Frith goes to some effort to show how many misconceptions about how the mind works still exist in our society. He wants to set those right, and does so splendidly in this book on the workings of ... Read More Rating:  - An enlightening readWhen I read through the prologue of this book, I thought it would be about consciousness, and how activity in the brain explains why we have the experiences that we do. I was wrong. This book is not about consciousness. Instead, Chris Frith attempts to explain how our mental world arises from activity in our brain. He does this not from wild speculation, but from a horde of neuroscientific evidence. He stops short of explaining why our experience of our mental world is at it is. For ... Read More Rating: - Phenomenal! Absolutely phenomenal!! When I first found this book, it took some convincing before I bought it. The book is fairly expensive, and from looking at the chapter sections, the book seems to promise to explain the impossible... and in a very short space. However, there was one other review, which was very positive. I then learned that the book had been positively reviewed by both V.S. Ramachandran and Oliver Sacks. So I bought it, and I sure am glad I did! To put it bluntly, this is by far the best ... Read More Rating: - SmashingEvery once in a while, I read a book which performs a sort of miraculous feat. It sets out to do the seemingly impossible, and then not only does so, but does so in a way which seems almost effortless. Chris Frith's book "The Making Up The Mind" is like this. Its task is nothing less than to explain "how the brain creates our mental world" to a popular but educated audience - and in the space of 193 pages, he actually does it. Along the way, he references dozens of the most important ... Read More 
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