The Secret Life of the Mind: How Your Brain Thinks, Feels, and Decides (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780316549622)

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.

Author: Mariano Sigman
ISBN-10: 0316549622
ISBN-13: 9780316549622
Publisher: Little, Brown Spark
Language: English
Published: 06/27/2017
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/24/2017
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2017
Library Journal 08/01/2017 pg. 106