Making up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World
- ISBN-10
- 1118697480
- ISBN-13
- 9781118697481
- Category
- Psychology
- Pages
- 248
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-05-20
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Author
- Chris Frith
Description
Written by one of the world’s leading neuroscientists,Making Up the Mind is the first accessible account ofexperimental studies showing how the brain creates our mentalworld. Uses evidence from brain imaging, psychological experiments andstudies of patients to explore the relationship between the mindand the brain Demonstrates that our knowledge of both the mental and physicalcomes to us through models created by our brain Shows how the brain makes communication of ideas from one mindto another possible
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