According to Dean Buonomano, in his excellent book Brain Bugs, the majority of people give an answer of four thousand, instead of the correct answer of 3100.
In The Political Brain, a wonderful book about the role of emotion in politics, Drew Westen talks about curb appeal.
"As they say, nature abhors a vacuum, and the mind abhors chance, " says Michael Shermer, executive director of the Skeptics Society and author of "The Believing Brain, " a book on how humans seem hardwired to find patterns in disparate facts and unconnected, often innocent coincidences.
According to the fascinating book The Female Brain by Dr. Louann Brizendine, the differences between male and female brains are widespread, contributing to significant differences in behavior and perception.
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John Coates, a former Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank trader turned neuroscientist, documents his stunning research on brain chemicals in his new book, The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk Taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust.
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In my book "Rainy Brain, Sunny Brain, " I discuss how genes and environments work together to influence how emotional circuits develop.
The goal of neuroscience is to understand just how the brain does this, and a good expository book should do the same thing.
In my new book, "Awakening the Brain, " I discuss the possibility of managing the brain and the questions of how to do it, and why we should want to.
If you finish Singh's code book and want to tax your brain even more, go back to David Kahn's 1, 200-page The Codebreakers, a classic that came out in 1967 and was recently updated.
Horn discussed a book he was reading, The Female Brain, with Gonzalez.
Rather than discussing the already worn (and to me irrelevant) debate of digital book versus analog book, I talked about future technologies like brain computer interface, real-time simulation and programmable material, and how these will change the face of literature far beyond the Kindle, perhaps eventually eliminating text altogether.
In his new book Mr Gazzaniga uses animal studies to argue that the brain is shaped by the tasks before it, pointing out that the brains of New World carnivorous bats are more similar to those of Old World carnivorous bats than they are to New World fruit bats, despite these being their closer cousins.
His book, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain, details the connection.
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And not just letting yourself get absorbed by a good book on a regular basis, but reading with one part of your brain watching what the writer is doing and how you are reacting to it.
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When brain usage patterns of people performing a Google search are compared with those of people reading a book, the usage is greater and in completely different regions.
When my family and I toed our way through the Boundary Waters of the northern reaches of Minnesota, my brother and I found a stand of pitcher plants growing out of a moldering mat of reeds and moss, and because of this book, I had the theory of ecological succession right in the front of my brain.
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