The Resource The playful brain : the surprising science of how puzzles improve your mind, Richard Restak ; with puzzles by Scott Kim
The playful brain : the surprising science of how puzzles improve your mind, Richard Restak ; with puzzles by Scott Kim
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The item The playful brain : the surprising science of how puzzles improve your mind, Richard Restak ; with puzzles by Scott Kim represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- A leading neuroscientist and a noted puzzle designer team up to reveal how solving puzzles improves one's brain function, giving readers the chance to work puzzles while learning how to boost their brain
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 294 p.
- Contents
-
- Memory. Working memory : brain juggling
- Long-term memory : imagining the future by remembering the past
- Perception. Perceptual skill learning : the sommelier and the hockey player
- Visual thinking : seeing, not just looking
- Spatial thinking : the challenge of mental rotation
- Listening : the foley artist and the cocktail party
- Motor skill learning : of mental maps and pickpockets
- Time : clock time vs. brain time
- Cognition. Thinking in words : the hammer, the saw, and the hatchet
- Logic : reasoning in uncertain situations
- Emotions and thinking : the anger superiority effect
- Mathematics : doing the numbers at the checkout line
- Illusions : shadows, balls, and rotating snakes
- Creativity : the magic matches of Carlo Reverberi
- Isbn
- 9781594485459
- Label
- The playful brain : the surprising science of how puzzles improve your mind
- Title
- The playful brain
- Title remainder
- the surprising science of how puzzles improve your mind
- Statement of responsibility
- Richard Restak ; with puzzles by Scott Kim
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A leading neuroscientist and a noted puzzle designer team up to reveal how solving puzzles improves one's brain function, giving readers the chance to work puzzles while learning how to boost their brain
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1942-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Restak, Richard M.
- Dewey number
- 612.82
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Kim, Scott
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Puzzles
- Cognitive neuroscience
- Thought and thinking
- Label
- The playful brain : the surprising science of how puzzles improve your mind, Richard Restak ; with puzzles by Scott Kim
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-288) and index
- Contents
- Memory. Working memory : brain juggling -- Long-term memory : imagining the future by remembering the past -- Perception. Perceptual skill learning : the sommelier and the hockey player -- Visual thinking : seeing, not just looking -- Spatial thinking : the challenge of mental rotation -- Listening : the foley artist and the cocktail party -- Motor skill learning : of mental maps and pickpockets -- Time : clock time vs. brain time -- Cognition. Thinking in words : the hammer, the saw, and the hatchet -- Logic : reasoning in uncertain situations -- Emotions and thinking : the anger superiority effect -- Mathematics : doing the numbers at the checkout line -- Illusions : shadows, balls, and rotating snakes -- Creativity : the magic matches of Carlo Reverberi
- Control code
- 000045747661
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 294 p.
- Isbn
- 9781594485459
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Lccn
- 2010024140
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
- (OCoLC)535490804
- Label
- The playful brain : the surprising science of how puzzles improve your mind, Richard Restak ; with puzzles by Scott Kim
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-288) and index
- Contents
- Memory. Working memory : brain juggling -- Long-term memory : imagining the future by remembering the past -- Perception. Perceptual skill learning : the sommelier and the hockey player -- Visual thinking : seeing, not just looking -- Spatial thinking : the challenge of mental rotation -- Listening : the foley artist and the cocktail party -- Motor skill learning : of mental maps and pickpockets -- Time : clock time vs. brain time -- Cognition. Thinking in words : the hammer, the saw, and the hatchet -- Logic : reasoning in uncertain situations -- Emotions and thinking : the anger superiority effect -- Mathematics : doing the numbers at the checkout line -- Illusions : shadows, balls, and rotating snakes -- Creativity : the magic matches of Carlo Reverberi
- Control code
- 000045747661
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 294 p.
- Isbn
- 9781594485459
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Lccn
- 2010024140
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
- (OCoLC)535490804
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