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Mind Hacks: Tips & Tools for Using Your Brain (Hacks) by Tom Stafford and Matt Webb is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Mind Hacks: Tips & Tools for Using Your Brain (Hacks) about?
The brain is a fearsomely complex information-processing environment--one that often eludes our ability to understand it. At any given time, the brain is collecting, filtering, and analyzing information and, in response, performing countless intricate processes, some of which are automatic, some voluntary, some conscious, and some unconscious. Cognitive neuroscience is one of the ways we have to understand the workings of our minds. It's the study of the brain biology behind our mental functions: a collection of methods--like brain scanning and computational modeling--combined with a way of looking at psychological phenomena and discovering where, why, and how the brain makes them happen. Want to know more? Mind Hacks is a collection of probes into the moment-by-moment works of the brain. Using cognitive neuroscience, these experiments, tricks, and tips related to vision, motor skills, attention, cognition, subliminal perception, and more throw light on how the human brain works. Each hack examines specific operations of the brain. By seeing how the brain responds, we pick up clues about the architecture and design of the brain, learning a little bit more about how the brain is put
Who reads Mind Hacks: Tips & Tools for Using Your Brain (Hacks)?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Tom Stafford and Matt Webb
- Publisher
- O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781449390969
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Psychology, Computer Science, Self Help
- Rating
- 3.69 / 5 (820 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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