Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life - Rilegato

Johnson, Steven

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ISBN 10: 0743241657 ISBN 13: 9780743241656

Casa editrice: Scribner, 2004

Riassunto

A tour of today's cutting-edge brain research challenges readers to reevaluate the essence of human personality and fate, explaining how the brain predicts and processes events, describing breakthroughs in biofeedback technology, citing the sources of creativity and ideas, and offering insight into brain neurochemistry. 50,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

Steven Johnson is the author of Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software, which was named as a finalist for the 2002 Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism and was a New York Times Notable Book of 2001, as well as a "best book of the year" in Discover, Esquire, The Washington Post, and The Village Voice. He writes the monthly "Emerging Technology" column for Discover and is a contributing editor at Wired. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, The New Yorker, Harper's, and The Guardian. He is also the author of Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate. Johnson holds a B.A. in semiotics from Brown University and an M.A. in English from Columbia. He lives in New York City with his wife and two sons.

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Book by Johnson Steven

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• Editore: Scribner
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0743241657
• ISBN 13: 9780743241656
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 288