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| Foreword | |
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| Credits | |
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| Preface | |
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| Inside the Brain | |
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| Find Out How the Brain Works Without Looking Inside | |
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| Electroencephalogram: Getting the Big Picture with EEGs | |
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| Positron Emission Tomography: Measuring Activity Indirectly with PET | |
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| Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: The State of the Art | |
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| Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: Turn On and Off Bits of the Brain | |
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| Neuropsychology, the 10% Myth, and Why You Use All of Your Brain | |
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| Get Acquainted with the Central Nervous System | |
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| Tour the Cortex and the Four Lobes | |
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| The Neuron | |
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| Detect the Effect of Cognitive Function on Cerebral Blood Flow | |
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| Why People Don't Work Like Elevator Buttons | |
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| Build Your Own Sensory Homunculus | |
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| Seeing | |
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| Understand Visual Processing | |
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| See the Limits of Your Vision | |
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| To See, Act | |
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| Map Your Blind Spot | |
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| Glimpse the Gaps in Your Vision | |
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| When Time Stands Still | |
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| Release Eye Fixations for Faster Reactions | |
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| Fool Yourself into Seeing 3D | |
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| Objects Move, Lighting Shouldn't | |
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| Depth Matters | |
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| See How Brightness Differs from Luminance: The Checker Shadow Illusion | |
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| Create Illusionary Depth with Sunglasses | |
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| See Movement When All Is Still | |
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| Get Adjusted | |
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| Show Motion Without Anything Moving | |
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| Motion Extrapolation: The "Flash-Lag Effect" | |
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| Turn Gliding Blocks into Stepping Feet | |
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| Understand the Rotating Snakes Illusion | |
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| Minimize Imaginary Distances | |
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| Explore Your Defense Hardware | |
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| Neural Noise Isn't a Bug; It's a Feature | |
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| Attention | |
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| Detail and the Limits of Attention | |
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| Count Faster with Subitizing | |
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| Feel the Presence and Loss of Attention | |
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| Grab Attention | |
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| Don't Look Back! | |
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| Avoid Holes in Attention | |
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| Blind to Change | |
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| Make Things Invisible Simply by Concentrating (on Something Else) | |
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| The Brain Punishes Features that Cry Wolf | |
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| Improve Visual Attention Through Video Games | |
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| Hearing and Language | |
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| Detect Timing with Your Ears | |
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| Detect Sound Direction | |
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| Discover Pitch | |
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| Keep Your Balance | |
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| Detect Sounds on the Margins of Certainty | |
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| Speech Is Broadband Input to Your Head | |
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| Give Big-Sounding Words to Big Concepts | |
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| Stop Memory-Buffer Overrun While Reading | |
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| Robust Processing Using Parallelism | |
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| Integrating | |
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| Put Timing Information into Sound and Location Information into Light | |
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| Don't Divide Attention Across Locations | |
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| Confuse Color Identification with Mixed Signals | |
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| Don't Go There | |
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| Combine Modalities to Increase Intensity | |
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| Watch Yourself to Feel More | |
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| Hear with Your Eyes: The McGurk Effect | |
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| Pay Attention to Thrown Voices | |
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| Talk to Yourself | |
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| Moving | |
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| The Broken Escalator Phenomenon: When Autopilot Takes Over | |
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| Keep Hold of Yourself | |
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| Mold Your Body Schema | |
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| Why Can't You Tickle Yourself? | |
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| Trick Half Your Mind | |
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| Objects Ask to Be Used | |
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| Test Your Handedness | |
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| Use Your Right Brain-and Your Left, Too | |
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| Reasoning | |
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| Use Numbers Carefully | |
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| Think About Frequencies Rather than Probabilities | |
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| Detect Cheaters | |
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| Fool Others into Feeling Better | |
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| Maintain the Status Quo | |
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| Togetherness | |
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| Grasp the Gestalt | |
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| To Be Noticed, Synchronize in Time | |
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| See a Person in Moving Lights | |
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| Make Things Come Alive | |
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| Make Events Understandable as Cause and Effect | |
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| Act Without Knowing It | |
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| Remembering | |
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| Bring Stuff to the Front of Your Mind | |
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| Subliminal Messages Are Weak and Simple | |
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| Fake Familiarity | |
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| Keep Your Sources Straight (if You Can) | |
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| Create False Memories | |
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| Change Context to Build Robust Memories | |
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| Boost Memory Using Context | |
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| Think Yourself Strong | |
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| Navigate Your Way Through Memory | |
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| Have an Out-of-Body Experience | |
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| Enter the Twilight Zone: The Hypnagogic State | |
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| Make the Caffeine Habit Taste Good | |
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| Other People | |
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| Understand What Makes Faces Special | |
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| Signal Emotion | |
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| Make Yourself Happy | |
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| Reminisce Hot and Cold | |
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| Look Where I'm Looking | |
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| Monkey See, Monkey Do | |
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| Spread a Bad Mood Around | |
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| You Are What You Think | |
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| Index | |