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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780226238616
- Book Title
- Wandering Mind : What the Brain Does When You're Not Looking
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Item Length
- 0.9 in
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.1 in
- Genre
- Science, Psychology, Medical
- Topic
- Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Life Sciences / Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
- Item Weight
- 15.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 0.6 in
- Number of Pages
- 184 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
022623861X
ISBN-13
9780226238616
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2309312472
Product Key Features
Book Title
Wandering Mind : What the Brain Does When You're Not Looking
Number of Pages
184 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Topic
Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Life Sciences / Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Science, Psychology, Medical
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
15.1 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2014-035713
Reviews
Although The Wandering Mind is a conversational essay, it doesn't wander. Corballis distills to essentials. Memory, thinking about the future, reading other people, storytelling, dreams, hallucinations, and creativity each get a chapter., "We spend at least half of our lives off-task, our minds wandering into distant, imaginary worlds. We're taught from a young age that this is a bad habit. But Corballis argues that mind wandering isn't just important for creativity--it's an essential part of what makes humans unique." , Although The Wandering Mind is a conversational essay, it doesn't wander. Corballis distills to essentials. Memory, thinking about the future, reading other people, storytelling, dreams, hallucinations, and creativity each get a chapter., Touching on daydreaming, remembering and subconsciously planning for the future, Corballis suggests that the brain is designed for unfocused functionality. . . . Engaging., Michael Corballis, the scientist, takes you by the hand and weaves through an avalanche of information from psychology, literature, history, and more to elucidate my favorite mental state--mind wandering. His high capacity for erudition, lucidity, and warmth have never shined more brightly., "Touching on daydreaming, remembering and subconsciously planning for the future, Corballis suggests that the brain is designed for unfocused functionality. . . . Engaging." , The Wandering Mind is a pleasure to read--a lively book that will appeal to a broad spectrum of readers., We spend at least half of our lives off-task, our minds wandering into distant, imaginary worlds. We're taught from a young age that this is a bad habit. But Corballis argues that mind wandering isn't just important for creativity--it's an essential part of what makes humans unique.
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
153
Synopsis
If we've done our job well-and, let's be honest, if we're lucky-you'll read to the end of this description. Most likely, however, you won't. Somewhere in the middle of the next paragraph, your mind will wander off. Minds wander. That's just how it is. That may be bad news for me, but is it bad news for people in general? Does the fact that as much as fifty percent of our waking hours find us failing to focus on the task at hand represent a problem? Michael Corballis doesn't think so, and with The Wandering Mind , he shows us why, rehabilitating woolgathering and revealing its incredibly useful effects. Drawing on the latest research from cognitive science and evolutionary biology, Corballis shows us how mind-wandering not only frees us from moment-to-moment drudgery, but also from the limitations of our immediate selves. Mind-wandering strengthens our imagination, fueling the flights of invention, storytelling, and empathy that underlie our shared humanity; furthermore, he explains, our tendency to wander back and forth through the timeline of our lives is fundamental to our very sense of ourselves as coherent, continuing personalities. Full of unusual examples and surprising discoveries, The Wandering Mind mounts a vigorous defense of inattention-even as it never fails to hold the reader's., If we've done our job well--and, let's be honest, if we're lucky--you'll read to the end of this description. Most likely, however, you won't. Somewhere in the middle of the next paragraph, your mind will wander off. Minds wander. That's just how it is. That may be bad news for me, but is it bad news for people in general? Does the fact that as much as fifty percent of our waking hours find us failing to focus on the task at hand represent a problem? Michael Corballis doesn't think so, and with The Wandering Mind , he shows us why, rehabilitating woolgathering and revealing its incredibly useful effects. Drawing on the latest research from cognitive science and evolutionary biology, Corballis shows us how mind-wandering not only frees us from moment-to-moment drudgery, but also from the limitations of our immediate selves. Mind-wandering strengthens our imagination, fueling the flights of invention, storytelling, and empathy that underlie our shared humanity; furthermore, he explains, our tendency to wander back and forth through the timeline of our lives is fundamental to our very sense of ourselves as coherent, continuing personalities. Full of unusual examples and surprising discoveries, The Wandering Mind mounts a vigorous defense of inattention---even as it never fails to hold the reader's., Parents, teachers, bosses spend hours asking their constituencies to pay attention, to focus. Yet wandering minds are common--even in the best of us. In fact, for a full 50% of our waking hours, our minds are not focused on tasks at hand. And rest assured, this is actually a good thing. We are biologically disposed to alternate between paying attention and thinking about something else. Do these lapses provide the rest and relaxation our brains need to recover from periods of concentration? Or are these neurological interludes purely for pleasure? In The Wandering Mind, Corballis argues that mind-wandering has many constructive and adaptive features. These range from mental time travel--the wandering back and forth through time, not only to plan our futures based on past experience, but also to generate a continuous sense of who we are--to the ability to inhabit the minds of others, increasing empathy and social understanding. Through mind-wandering, we invent, tell stories, and expand our mental horizons. Mind wandering , hardly the sign of a faulty network or aimless distraction, actually underwrites creativity, whether as a Wordsworth wandering lonely as a cloud, or an Einstein imagining himself travelling on a beam of light. Corballis takes readers on a mental journey in chapters that can be savored piecemeal, as the minds of readers wander in different ways, and sometimes have limited attentional capacity. Rooted in neuroscience, psychology and evolutionary biology, but written with Corballis' signature wit and wisdom, The Wandering Mind illuminates those murky regions of the brain where dreams and religion, fiction and fantasy lurk.
LC Classification Number
BF201.C67 2015
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