The playful brain : the surprising science of how puzzles improve your mind, Richard Restak and Scott Kim
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- The playful brain : the surprising science of how puzzles improve your mind, Richard Restak and Scott Kim
- Title remainder
- the surprising science of how puzzles improve your mind
- Statement of responsibility
- Richard Restak and Scott Kim
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Contents
- The art and science of brain enhancement -- Learning to solve puzzles -- Memory -- Working memory: brain juggling -- Long-term memory: imagining the future by remembering the past -- Perception -- Perceptual skill learning: the sommelier and the hockey player -- Visual thinking: seeing, not just looking -- Spatial thinking: the challenge of mental rotation -- Listening: the foley artist and the cocktail party -- Motor skill learning: of mental maps and pickpockets -- Time: clock time vs. brain time -- Cognition -- Thinking in words: the hammer, the saw, and the hatchet -- Logic: reasoning in uncertain situations -- Emotions and thinking: the anger superiority effect -- Mathematics: doing the numbers at the checkout line -- Illusions: shadows, balls, and rotating snakes -- Creativity: the magic matches of Carlo Reverberi
- Control code
- BK0008807718
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 294 p.
- Isbn
- 9781594487774
- Lccn
- 2010024140
- Other physical details
- ill.
- Record ID
- .b15638807
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