The Idiot Brain
2016 • 336 pages
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From attention mechanisms to memory processing, the neuroscience of sleep and the psychology of superstition, neuroscientist Dean Burnett explores the surprising workings of the brain and the bemusing behaviours these cause in everyday life.
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A fascinating and digestible review of current thinking about the workings (and myriad failings) of the human brain. I was particularly pleased that the author didn't necessarily take one interpretation of the data as gospel, rather presenting a few theories where it made sense to do so. After all, data mean nothing without interpretation.
