The wandering mind : what the brain does when you're not looking

"The point of this piece of writing is to get you to pick up this book. But what if it takes us a few sentences to explain? What if we need to go into some detail? Are you even going to be paying attention by that point, or will your mind already have wandered off somewhere, not caring a whit a...

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Auteur principal : Corballis Michael C. (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : The wandering mind : what the brain does when you're not looking / Michael C. Corballis
Édition : Paperback edition.
Publié : Chicago : The University of Chicago Press , 2016, copyright 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (173 p.)
Contenu : Meandering brain, wandering mind. Memory. On time. The hippo in the brain. Wandering into other minds. Stories. Tigers in the night. Hallucinations. The creativity of the wandering mind
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