This Is Our Brain
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This is Your Brain on Music
From the author of The Changing Mind and The Organized Mind comes a New York Times bestseller that unravels the mystery of our perennial love affair with music ***** 'What do the music of Bach, Depeche Mode and John Cage fundamentally have in common?' Music is an obsession at the heart of human nature, even more fundamental to our species than language. From Mozart to the Beatles, neuroscientist, psychologist and internationally-bestselling author Daniel Levitin reveals the role of music in human evolution, shows how our musical preferences begin to form even before we are born and explains why music can offer such an emotional experience. In This Is Your Brain On Music Levitin offers nothing less than a new way to understand music, and what it can teach us about ourselves. ***** 'Music seems to have an almost wilful, evasive quality, defying simple explanation, so that the more we find out, the more there is to know . . . Daniel Levitin's book is an eloquent and poetic exploration of this paradox' Sting 'You'll never hear music in the same way again' Classic FM magazine 'Music, Levitin argues, is not a decadent modern diversion but something of fundamental importance to the history of human development' Literary Review
What Should We Do with Our Brain?
Author: Catherine Malabou
language: en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date: 2009-08-25
Recent neuroscience, in replacing the old model of the brain as a single centralized source of control, has emphasized plasticity,the quality by which our brains develop and change throughout the course of our lives. Our brains exist as historical products, developing in interaction with themselves and with their surroundings.Hence there is a thin line between the organization of the nervous system and the political and social organization that both conditions and is conditioned by human experience. Looking carefully at contemporary neuroscience, it is hard not to notice that the new way of talking about the brain mirrors the management discourse of the neo-liberal capitalist world in which we now live, with its talk of decentralization, networks, and flexibility. Consciously or unconsciously, science cannot but echo the world in which it takes place.In the neo-liberal world, plasticitycan be equated with flexibility-a term that has become a buzzword in economics and management theory. The plastic brain would thus represent just another style of power, which, although less centralized, is still a means of control. In this book, Catherine Malabou develops a second, more radical meaning for plasticity. Not only does plasticity allow our brains to adapt to existing circumstances, it opens a margin of freedom to intervene, to change those very circumstances. Such an understanding opens up a newly transformative aspect of the neurosciences.In insisting on this proximity between the neurosciences and the social sciences, Malabou applies to the brain Marx's well-known phrase about history: people make their own brains, but they do not know it. This book is a summons to such knowledge.
The Brain Book: How to Think and Work Smarter
Author: Phil Dobson
language: en
Publisher: Jaico Publishing House
Release Date: 2024-09-18
A PRACTICAL APPROACH TO GETTING MORE FROM YOUR BRAIN This book provides a manual for optimizing your mental performance, and a guide to thinking and working smarter, based on what we know about the brain. Full of practical tips and techniques, grounded in neuroscience and psychological research, you will learn how to strengthen your focus and improve your productivity, enhance your creative thinking and problem-solving, and improve your memory. You will learn how to manage stress, improve your sleep, and discover how to keep your brain young and adaptable: • Boost your mental performance • Optimize your productivity • Transform your focus • Develop your problem-solving • Enhance your creative thinking • Manage your stress • Improve your wellbeing • Transform your sleep • Upgrade your memory • Keep your brain young