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Mind hacks: tips & tricks for using your brain

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Chapter 1. Inside the Brain ........................................ 1
1. Find Out How the Brain Works Without Looking Inside 2
2. Electroencephalogram: Getting the Big Picture with EEGs 5
3. Positron Emission Tomography: Measuring Activity Indirectly
with PET 6
4. Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging:
The State of the Art 7
5. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation:
Turn On and Off Bits of the Brain 8
6. Neuropsychology, the 10% Myth, and Why You Use All
of Your Brain 9
7. Get Acquainted with the Central Nervous System 13
8. Tour the Cortex and the Four Lobes 16
9. The Neuron 19
10. Detect the Effect of Cognitive Function on Cerebral Blood Flow 22
11. Why People Don't Work Like Elevator Buttons 24
12. Build Your Own Sensory Homunculus 27
Chapter 2. Seeing ............................................... 32
13. Understand Visual Processing 32
14. See the Limits of Your Vision 38
15. To See, Act 42
16. Map Your Blind Spot 46
17. Glimpse the Gaps in Your Vision 50
18. When Time Stands Still 52
19. Release Eye Fixations for Faster Reactions 55
20. Fool Yourself into Seeing 3D 57
21. Objects Move, Lighting Shouldn't 62
22. Depth Matters 66
23. See How Brightness Differs from Luminance:
The Checker Shadow Illusion 72
24. Create Illusionary Depth with Sunglasses 76
25. See Movement When All Is Still 80
26. Get Adjusted 83
27. Show Motion Without Anything Moving 86
28. Motion Extrapolation: The "Flash-Lag Effect" 90
29. Turn Gliding Blocks into Stepping Feet 93
30. Understand the Rotating Snakes Illusion 95
31. Minimize Imaginary Distances 101
32. Explore Your Defense Hardware 106
33. Neural Noise Isn't a Bug; It's a Feature 108
Chapter 3. Attention ..................................... ....... 111
34. Detail and the Limits of Attention 112
35. Count Faster with Subitizing 115
36. Feel the Presence and Loss of Attention 117
37. Grab Attention 123
38. Don't Look Back! 126
39. Avoid Holes in Attention 129
40. Blind to Change 134
41. Make Things Invisible Simply by Concentrating
(on Something Else) 137
42. The Brain Punishes Features that Cry Wolf 139
43. Improve Visual Attention Through Video Games 143
Chapter 4. Hearing and Language ................... .............. 147
44. Detect Timing with Your Ears 148
45. Detect Sound Direction 150
46. Discover Pitch 154
47. Keep Your Balance 156
48. Detect Sounds on the Margins of Certainty 158
49. Speech Is Broadband Input to Your Head 160
50. Give Big-Sounding Words to Big Concepts 162
51. Stop Memory-Buffer Overrun While Reading 165
52. Robust Processing Using Parallelism 169
Chapter 5. Integrating ........................................... 173
53. Put Timing Information into Sound
and Location Information into Light 173
54. Don't Divide Attention Across Locations 176
55. Confuse Color Identification with Mixed Signals 179
56. Don't Go There 182
57. Combine Modalities to Increase Intensity 186
58. Watch Yourself to Feel More 188
59. Hear with Your Eyes: The McGurk Effect 190
60. Pay Attention to Thrown Voices 193
61. Talk to Yourself 195
Chapter 6. Moving ...................................... 200
62. The Broken Escalator Phenomenon:
When Autopilot Takes Over 200
63. Keep Hold of Yourself 203
64. Mold Your Body Schema 207
65. Why Can't You Tickle Yourself? 210
66. Trick Half Your Mind 215
67. Objects Ask to Be Used 218
68. Test Your Handedness 221
69. Use Your Right Brain-and Your Left, Too 226
Chapter 7. Reasoning ......................................... 231
70. Use Numbers Carefully 231
71. Think About Frequencies Rather than Probabilities 234
72. Detect Cheaters 239
73. Fool Others into Feeling Better 242
74. Maintain the Status Quo 246
Chapter 8. Togetherness ......................................... 251
75. Grasp the Gestalt 252
76. To Be Noticed, Synchronize in Time 254
77. See a Person in Moving Lights 258
78. Make Things Come Alive 262
79. Make Events Understandable as Cause and Effect 265
80. Act Without Knowing It 269
Chapter 9. Remembering ........................................ 273
81. Bring Stuff to the Front of Your Mind 274
82. Subliminal Messages Are Weak and Simple 277
83. Fake Familiarity 279
84. Keep Your Sources Straight (if You Can) 283
85. Create False Memories 287
86. Change Context to Build Robust Memories 292
87. Boost Memory Using Context 295
88. Think Yourself Strong 298
89. Navigate Your Way Through Memory 302
90. Have an Out-of-Body Experience 306
91. Enter the Twilight Zone: The Hypnagogic State 308
92. Make the Caffeine Habit Taste Good 311
Chapter 10. Other People ................... .................... 316
93. Understand What Makes Faces Special 317
94. Signal Emotion 320
95. Make Yourself Happy 325
96. Reminisce Hot and Cold 327
97. Look Where I'm Looking 331
98. Monkey See, Monkey Do 335
99. Spread a Bad Mood Around 338
100. You Are What You Think 342

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612.8 STA m

Publisher

California : O'Reilly Media., 2004

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xxvii, 363 hal.; ilus.; 23 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780596007799

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612.8

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1st edition

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Kemampuan Berpikir
Brain
Thought and thinking
Visual perception
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Tom Stafford and Matt Webb

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