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A compelling investigation into one of our most coveted and cherished ideals, and the efforts of modern science to penetrate the mysterious nature of this timeless virtue. We all recognize wisdom, but defining it is more elusive. In this fascinating journey from philosophy to science, Stephen S. Hall gives us a dramatic history of wisdom, from its sudden emergence in four different locations (Greece, China, Israel, and India) in the fifth century B.C. to its modern manifestations.

For the past 50 years, popular culture has led us to believe in the left brain vs. right brain theory of personality types. It would be an illuminating theory if it did not have one major drawback: It is simply not supported by science. In contrast, the Top Brain, Bottom Brain theory is based on solid research that has stayed within the confines of labs all over the world—until now.

Faites-vous partie de ces gens qui pensent qu'ils n'ont aucune mémoire ? Qu'ils ne sont pas créatifs ? Qu'ils se feront toujours manipuler ? Et si je vous disais que vous vous trompez ? Améliorer vos relations sociales, booster votre cerveau, gagner tous vos paris... tout ceci ne dépend que de vous et de votre capacité à bien utiliser votre cerveau ! Je vais vous confier un secret... les personnes qui décident d'exploiter les capacités de ce formidable outil, de le comprendre et de jouer avec lui, ont une longueur d'avance sur les autres (à vrai dire, c'est presque injuste !).

The Aesthetic Brain takes the listener on a wide-ranging journey through the world of beauty, pleasure, and art. Chatterjee uses neuroscience to probe how an aesthetic sense is etched in our minds and evolutionary psychology to explain why aesthetic concerns feature centrally in our lives. Along the way, Chatterjee addresses fundamental questions: What is beauty? Is beauty universal? How is beauty related to pleasure? What is art? Should art be beautiful? Do we have an instinct for art?

O cérebro — órgão mais complexo do corpo humano – é o foco de estudo da neurociência, que, embora seja um campo recente, tem raízes milenares. Com as descobertas das estruturas cerebrais nos últimos séculos, essa ciência tem o desafio de desvendar a complexidade do sistema nervoso e dos comportamentos humanos. Com o propósito de informar e, com isso, proporcionar um maior equilíbrio do corpo com a psique, este audiolivro apresenta as bases atuais da neurociência, quais são suas teorias para explicar o funcionamento do cérebro, suas disfunções e os impactos desse campo de estudo na vida humana.

Meredith Maran lived a daughter's nightmare: she accused her father of sexual abuse, then realized, nearly too late, that he was innocent. During the 1980s and 1990s, tens of thousands of Americans became convinced that they had repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse, and then, decades later, recovered those memories in therapy. Journalist, mother, and daughter Meredith Maran was one of them.

In Coming to Our Senses, cognitive scientist Viki McCabe argues that prevailing theories of perception, cognition, and information cannot explain how we know the world around us. Using scientific studies and true stories, McCabe shows that the ecological disasters, political paralysis, and economic failures we now face originate in our tendency to privilege cognitive processes and products over the information we access with our perceptual systems.

Like many of us, journalist David K. Randall never gave sleep much thought. That is, until he began sleepwalking. One midnight crash into a hallway wall sent him on an investigation into the strange science of sleep. In Dreamland, Randall explores the research that is investigating those dark hours that make up nearly a third of our lives.

In the wake of a divorce, science writer and single mother Kayt Sukel made herself a guinea pig in the labs of some unusual love experts to find out. This Is Your Brain on Sex is her lively and hilarious examination of the big questions about love and sex, previously published in hardcover as Dirty Minds. Each chapter of this edgy romp through the romantic brain looks at a different aspect of love above the belt.

In recent years, the advent of MRI technology seems to have unlocked the secrets of the human mind, revealing the sources of our deepest desires, intentions, and fears. As renowned psychiatrist and scholar Sally Satel and psychologist Scott O. Lilienfeld demonstrate in Brainwashed, however, the explanatory power of brain scans in particular and neuroscience more generally has been vastly overestimated.

Leading sleep researcher Rosalind Cartwright brings together decades of work on sleep, dreaming, and sleep disorders to propose a new theory of how the mind works continuously. Drawing on her own research and that of others, Cartwright describes how conscious and unconscious thoughts and feelings move forward - from waking, into sleep and dreaming, to the next waking day. One main purpose of sleep is to regulate disturbing emotions. Not everyone does this successfully every night.

Ogni essere umano ha un cervello, ma non tutti i cervelli sono uguali. Eppure, poche persone hanno un'idea realistica dell'infinita variabilità della neuropsicologia umana, e di quanto questa variabilità, se non considerata adeguatamente, possa favorire incomprensioni, sofferenze, marginalizzazioni. Le scienze biomediche, cognitive e psicologiche, le scienze umane e sociali hanno elaborato approcci diversi per descrivere e trattare questa diversità.

Resulta que la música no es sólo entretenimiento: es un medio de comunicación profundamente arraigado y sutilmente poderoso. Las canciones resuenan con tus patrones de ondas cerebrales e impulsan cambios en tu cerebro: creando tus estados de ánimo, consolidando tus recuerdos, fortaleciendo tus hábitos (tanto los buenos como los malos) ... incluso haciendo que te enamores o desenamores. Tu música te está moldeando, a nivel subconsciente, durante todo el día. Y ahora, por primera vez, puedes hacerte cargo.

La situation n'est pas désespérée. La solution est en nous. Ça y est, nous avons dépassé le stade critique. Le dernier rapport du GIEC atteste que la vie sur terre deviendra à terme insoutenable. La cause : le réchauffement climatique que nous avons-nous-mêmes enclenché. Nous savons que nous sommes en perdition et nous ne réagissons pas. Pourquoi ? Sans qu'on le sache, se joue depuis des millénaires dans notre cerveau une terrible bataille. D'un côté il y a le striatum, petite structure nerveuse qui génère du plaisir. De l'autre il y a le cortex préfrontal, organe destiné à contrôler nos pulsions.

È l'organo che più ci contraddistingue come specie, quello che – a torto o a ragione – ci fa sentire superiori agli altri esseri viventi, il fondamento della nostra civiltà e, per alcuni, la sede dell'anima; ma a che cosa serve davvero il nostro cervello, e come funziona?

Se riuscissimo a stabilire un "principio di coscienza" e a misurarlo sarebbe una rivoluzione scientifica, morale e filosofica di enorme portata. Questo audiolibro racconta la storia di un'appassionante spedizione alla ricerca dei segni della coscienza nel coma, nel sonno e nel sogno; e di tutto ciò che ne consegue.

Neuroeconomia, neuromarketing, neuroestetica, neuroteologia...: si affacciano oggi sulla scena nuove e sempre più fantasiose discipline frutto del cortocircuito tra saperi antichi e scoperte recenti sul funzionamento del cervello. Sui media proliferano articoli divulgativi, corredati da foto a colori del cervello, che ci mostrano il luogo preciso dove si sviluppa un certo pensiero o una certa emozione, facendoci credere che sia possibile vedere direttamente, senza mediazioni, il cervello al lavoro. Ma le cose stanno veramente così?

Disfruta de este viaje a través de los sentidos y descubre la infinidad de posibilidades que nuestro cuerpo tiene para ofrecer.

Los magos utilizan efectos ópticos y manipulan la atención: consiguen que miremos, pero que no veamos. Se aprovechan de nuestras predisposiciones y de la fragilidad de nuestros recuerdos, porque el secreto de la magia está en el funcionamiento de nuestra mente. Para desvelarlo, este libro nos propone un viaje a través de la cognición humana; un recorrido por el amplio mundo de la atención, la percepción, las memorias y las decisiones.

Die Faszination für die Tiefen der menschlichen Seele begleitet uns seit Jahrhunderten: Wenn Mediziner*innen Fallgeschichten aus ihrer Praxis erzählen, dann hört man ihnen zu. Das Ärzteehepaar Nicole und Christian Knobloch behandelt in seiner Praxis seit über zwanzig Jahren Menschen mit psychiatrischen und neurologischen Erkrankungen. In zahlreichen Fallgeschichten berichten sie nun erstmals aus dem breiten Spektrum der Neurologie und Psychiatrie. So begegnet ihnen eine junge Mutter, deren ALS-Diagnose bereits ihr Leben überschattet – doch ihr Schlafzimmerblick bringt die Ärzte auf eine rettende Spur.