The Secret Life of the Mind: How Your Brain Thinks, Feels, and Decides

From a world-renowned leader in neuroscience, a provocative, enthralling journey into the depths of the human mind.

Where do our thoughts come from? How do we make choices and trust our judgments? What is the role of the unconscious? Can we manipulate our dreams? In this mind-bending international bestseller, award-winning neuroscientist Mariano Sigman explores the complex answers to these and many other age-old questions.

Over the course of his 20-year career investigating the inner workings of the human brain, Dr. Sigman has cultivated a remarkable interdisciplinary vision. He draws on research in physics, linguistics, psychology, education, and beyond to explain why people who speak more than one language are less prone to dementia; how infants can recognize by sight objects they've previously only touched; how babies, even before they utter their first word, have an innate sense of right and wrong; and how we can "read" the thoughts of vegetative patients by decoding patterns in their brain activity.

Building on the author's awe-inspiring TED talk, the cutting-edge research presented in The Secret Life of the Mind revolutionizes how we understand the role that neuroscience plays in our lives, unlocking the mysterious cerebral processes that control the ways in which we learn, reason, feel, think, and dream.

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• Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time
• A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
• How Emotions Are Made
• Into the Gray Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death
• Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do
• The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone
• La vida secreta de la mente/The Secret Life of the Mind: How Your Brain Thinks, Feels, and Decides: Nuestro cerebro cuando decidimos, sentimos y pensamos (Spanish Edition)
• The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others