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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 | |