The Wandering Mind What the Brain Does When You're Not Looking
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Erscheinungsdatum
22.12.2022
Verlag
The University of Chicago PressSeitenzahl
184 (Printausgabe)
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1509 KB
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Englisch
EAN
9780226238753
Rooted in neuroscience, psychology and evolutionary biology, this study explores what happens when we stop paying attention and the effect on our behavior.
If we've done our job well-and, let's be honest, if we're lucky-you'll read to the end of this description. Most likely, however, you won't. Somewhere in the middle of the next paragraph, your mind will wander off. Minds wander. That's just how it is.
That may be bad news for me, but is it bad news for people in general? Does the fact that as much as fifty percent of our waking hours find us failing to focus on the task at hand represent a problem? Michael Corballis doesn't think so. With
The Wandering Mind, he shows us why, rehabilitating woolgathering and revealing its incredibly useful effects. Drawing on the latest research from cognitive science and evolutionary biology, Corballis shows us how mind-wandering not only frees us from moment-to-moment drudgery, but also from the limitations of our immediate selves. Mind-wandering strengthens our imagination, fueling the flights of invention, storytelling, and empathy that underlie our shared humanity; furthermore, he explains, our tendency to wander back and forth through the timeline of our lives is fundamental to our very sense of ourselves as coherent, continuing personalities.
Full of unusual examples and surprising discoveries,
The Wandering Mind mounts a vigorous defense of inattention-even as it never fails to hold the reader's.
Praise for
The Wandering Mind
"[A] conversational, sincere and amusing book about the tendency of our minds to stray from whatever it is we are actually supposed to be focusing on.... [An] engaging exploration of the subject." -
Times Higher Education, Book of the Week
"Michael Corballis, the scientist, takes you by the hand and weaves through an avalanche of information from psychology, literature, history, and more to elucidate my favorite mental state-mind wandering. His high capacity for erudition, lucidity, and warmth have never shined more brightly." -Michael S. Gazzaniga
"
The Wandering Mind is a pleasure to read-a lively book that will appeal to a broad spectrum of readers." -Thomas Suddendorf, author of
The Gap
If we've done our job well-and, let's be honest, if we're lucky-you'll read to the end of this description. Most likely, however, you won't. Somewhere in the middle of the next paragraph, your mind will wander off. Minds wander. That's just how it is.
That may be bad news for me, but is it bad news for people in general? Does the fact that as much as fifty percent of our waking hours find us failing to focus on the task at hand represent a problem? Michael Corballis doesn't think so. With
The Wandering Mind, he shows us why, rehabilitating woolgathering and revealing its incredibly useful effects. Drawing on the latest research from cognitive science and evolutionary biology, Corballis shows us how mind-wandering not only frees us from moment-to-moment drudgery, but also from the limitations of our immediate selves. Mind-wandering strengthens our imagination, fueling the flights of invention, storytelling, and empathy that underlie our shared humanity; furthermore, he explains, our tendency to wander back and forth through the timeline of our lives is fundamental to our very sense of ourselves as coherent, continuing personalities.
Full of unusual examples and surprising discoveries,
The Wandering Mind mounts a vigorous defense of inattention-even as it never fails to hold the reader's.
Praise for
The Wandering Mind
"[A] conversational, sincere and amusing book about the tendency of our minds to stray from whatever it is we are actually supposed to be focusing on.... [An] engaging exploration of the subject." -
Times Higher Education, Book of the Week
"Michael Corballis, the scientist, takes you by the hand and weaves through an avalanche of information from psychology, literature, history, and more to elucidate my favorite mental state-mind wandering. His high capacity for erudition, lucidity, and warmth have never shined more brightly." -Michael S. Gazzaniga
"
The Wandering Mind is a pleasure to read-a lively book that will appeal to a broad spectrum of readers." -Thomas Suddendorf, author of
The Gap
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