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Johnson, Steven, (1968-)

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Mind wide open : = your brain and the neuroscience of everyday life /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Mind wide open :/ Steven Johnson.
Reminder of title:	your brain and the neuroscience of everyday life /
Author:	Johnson, Steven,
Published:	New York :Scribner, : c2004.,
Description:	ix, 274 p. :ill. ;24 cm.
[NT 15003449]:	Kafka's room -- Mind sight -- The sum of my fears -- Your attention, please -- Survival of the ticklish -- The hormones talking -- Scan thyself.
Subject:	Neuropsychology. -
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Online resource:	http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/simon052/2003063308.html
ISBN:	0743241657

Mind wide open : = your brain and the neuroscience of everyday life /
Johnson, Steven,1968-

Mind wide open :your brain and the neuroscience of everyday life /Steven Johnson. - New York :Scribner,c2004. - ix, 274 p. :ill. ;24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Kafka's room -- Mind sight -- The sum of my fears -- Your attention, please -- Survival of the ticklish -- The hormones talking -- Scan thyself.

Using a mix of experiential reportage, personal storytelling, and fresh scientific discovery, Steven Johnson describes how the brain works-its chemicals, structures, and subroutines-and how these systems connect to the day-to-day realities of individual lives. For a hundred years, he says, many of us have assumed that the most powerful route to self-knowledge took the form of lying on a couch, talking about our childhoods. The possibility entertained in this book is that you can follow another path, in which learning about the brain's mechanics can widen one's self-awareness as powerfully as any therapy or meditation or drug. In Mind Wide Open, Johnson embarks on this path as his own test subject, participating in a battery of attention tests, learning to control video games by altering his brain waves, scanning his own brain with a

ISBN: 0743241657

LCCN: 2003063308Subjects--Topical Terms:

525119
Neuropsychology.

LC Class. No.: RC341 / .J648 2004

Dewey Class. No.: 612.8/2

Mind wide open : = your brain and the neuroscience of everyday life /
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