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The popular Guardian blogger presents an upbeat tour of the human psyche and how it is related to the mysterious workings of the brain, exploring subjects ranging from egocentricity and superstition to insomnia and blackouts while exposing the many mistakes that have been made in humanity's effort to better understand the mind.

 

Presents a tour of the human psyche and how it is related to the workings of the brain, exploring such subjects as egocentricity, superstition, and insomnia, while exposing the mistakes that have been made in efforts to better understand the mind.

 

Burnett, a neuroscientist and science blogger, describes the strange processes in the brain and the illogical behaviors they produce. He explains how the brain regulates the body, the human memory system, how the brain makes people constantly afraid, the science of intelligence, the brain's observational systems, the properties of personality, how the brain is influenced by other people, and how mental health problems occur. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

 

It's happened to all of us at some point. You walk into the kitchen, or flip open your laptop, or stride confidently up to a lectern, filled with purposeâ€"and suddenly haven't the foggiest idea what you’re doing. Welcome to your idiot brain.Yes, it is an absolute marvel in some respectsâ€"the seat of our consciousness, the pinnacle (so far) of evolutionary progress, and the engine of all human experienceâ€"but your brain is also messy, fallible, and about 50,000 years out-of-date. We cling to superstitions, remember faces but not names, miss things sitting right in front of us, and lie awake at night while our brains replay our greatest fears on an endless loop.Yet all of this, believe it or not, is the sign of a well-meaning brain doing its best to keep you alive and healthy. In Idiot Brain, neuroscientist Dean Burnett celebrates blind spots, blackouts, insomnia, and all the other downright laughable things our minds do to us, while also exposing the many mistakes we've made in our quest to understand how our brains actually work. Expertly researched and entertainingly written, this book is for everyone who has wondered why their brain appears to be sabotaging their life, and what on earth it is really up to.

 

A neuroscientist's delightful tour of our mysterious, mischievous, entirely fallible gray matter.

 

Table of Contents

Introduction 1 (4)

1 Mind controls

5 (29)

How the brain regulates the body, and usually makes a mess of things

 

2 The gift of memory (keep the receipt)

34 (41)

The human memory system, and its strange features

 

3 Fear: nothing to be scared of

75 (37)

The many ways in which the brain makes us constantly afraid

 

4 Think you're clever, do you?

112 (40)

The baffling science of intelligence

 

5 Did you see this chapter coming?

152 (36)

The haphazard properties of the brain's observational systems

 

6 Personality: a testing concept

188 (34)

The complex and confusing properties of personality

 

7 Group hug!

222 (41)

How the brain is influenced by other people

 

8 When the brain breaks down

263 (40)

Mental health problems, and how they come about

 

Afterword 303 (1)

Acknowledgments 304 (1)

References 305 (16)

Index 321