Reading Minds: A Guide to the Cognitive Neuroscience Revolution

✍ Scribed by Michael Moskowitz

• Publisher: Karnac Books
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 257
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Reading Minds is a practical guide to the cognitive science revolution. With fascinating descriptions of studies of the mind, from the brain scans of lovers and liars in London to the eye movements of babies in Budapest, this book takes the reader into the laboratories of the most innovative psychological researchers around the world. Using anecdotes from everyday life and his clinical practice, renowned psychotherapist and academic Michael Moskowitz shows how to use the insights of science to better understand and relate to others. Read more...

Content: COVER; CONTENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE: Reading minds; CHAPTER TWO: Rock, paper, scissors: it pays to have a theory; CHAPTER THREE: What the brain tells us about the mind; CHAPTER FOUR: Trauma: how events shape the brain and the mind; CHAPTER FIVE: Ways of understanding; CHAPTER SIX: Bad feelings; CHAPTER SEVEN: Look me in the eye; CHAPTER EIGHT: Intimate relationships: reading your family, friends, and lovers; CHAPTER NINE: Why we don't know what we know; REFERENCES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INDEX;
Abstract:

A practical guide to the cognitive science revolution. With descriptions of studies of the mind, from the brain scans of lovers and liars in London to the eye movements of babies in Budapest, it shows how to use the insights of science to better understand and relate to others. Read more...