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Lingua:Libri Italiani'Highly accessible, content-rich and eminently readable . . . Fascinating and informative . . . popular science at its best.' - The Observer
'Subtly radical . . . It presents a revelatory model of consciousness that will be completely new to most readers' - The Guardian 'Best Reads For Summer'
Have you ever wondered why you have a brain? Let renowned neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett, bestselling author of How Emotions Are Made, demystify that big grey blob between your ears . . .
In seven short chapters (plus a brief history of how brains evolved), this slim, entertaining, and accessible book reveals mind-expanding lessons from the front lines of neuroscience research. You’ll learn where brains came from, how they’re structured (and why it matters), and how yours works in tandem with other brains to create everything you experience. Along the way, you’ll also learn to dismiss popular myths such as the idea of a 'lizard brain' and the alleged battle between thoughts and emotions, or even between nature and nurture, to determine your behaviour.
Sure to intrigue casual readers and scientific veterans alike, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain is full of surprises, humour, and important implications for human nature - a gift of a book about our most complex and crucial organ.
'How Emotions Are Made did what all great books do. It took a subject I thought I understood and turned my understanding upside down' - Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point.
When you feel anxious, angry, happy, or surprised, what's really going on inside of you?
Many scientists believe that emotions come from a specific part of the brain, triggered by the world around us. The thrill of seeing an old friend, the fear of losing someone we love – each of these sensations seems to arise automatically and uncontrollably from within us, finding expression on our faces and in our behaviour, carrying us away with the experience.
This understanding of emotion has been around since Plato. But what if it is wrong? In How Emotions Are Made, pioneering psychologist and neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett draws on the latest scientific evidence to reveal that our common-sense ideas about emotions are dramatically, even dangerously, out of date – and that we have been paying the price. Emotions aren't universally pre-programmed in our brains and bodies; rather they are psychological experiences that each of us constructs based on our unique personal history, physiology and environment.
This new view of emotions has serious implications: when judges issue lesser sentences for crimes of passion, when police officers fire at threatening suspects, or when doctors choose between one diagnosis and another, they're all, in some way, relying on the ancient assumption that emotions are hardwired into our brains and bodies. Revising that conception of emotion isn't just good science, Barrett shows; it's vital to our well-being and the health of society itself.
La ciencia de las emociones está en plena revolución y este cambio de paradigma tiene implicaciones de gran alcance para todos nosotros. La psicóloga y neurocientífica Lisa Feldman Barrett, cuya teoría de las emociones está impulsando una comprensión más profunda de la mente y el cerebro, revierte la creencia generalizada de que las emociones se alojan en diferentes partes del cerebro y se expresan y reconocen universalmente. Muy al contrario, ha demostrado que las emociones se construye en el momento, mediante sistemas centrales que interactúan en todo el cerebro gracias a toda una vida de aprendizaje.
Die Freude, Freund:innen wiederzusehen, die Angst, einen geliebten Menschen zu verlieren – unsere Empfindungen scheinen automatisch in uns aufzutauchen, sich in unserem Gesicht und in unserem Verhalten auszudrücken und unabhängig von unserem Willen einfach zu «geschehen». Dieses Verständnis von Emotionen gibt es bereits seit Platon. Was aber, wenn es falsch ist? Die renommierte Psychologin und Neurowissenschaftlerin Lisa Feldman Barrett zeigt auf der Grundlage neuester wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse, dass unsere Vorstellungen von Emotionen auf dramatische Weise veraltet sind – und dass wir den Preis dafür zahlen. Feldman Barrett behauptet: Emotionen sind nicht universell in unseren Gehirnen und Körpern vorprogrammiert; vielmehr sind sie psychologische Erfahrungen, die jeder von uns auf der Grundlage seiner einzigartigen persönlichen Geschichte, Physiologie und Umwelt konstruiert. Diese neue Sichtweise hat zentrale Folgen: Denn wir haben größeren Einfluss auf die Entstehung, Art und Intensität unserer Gefühle, als wir denken.
Warum haben wir eigentlich ein Gehirn? Die renommierte Neurowissenschaftlerin Lisa Feldman Barrett beantwortet in diesem unterhaltsamen und leicht verständlichen Buch in siebeneinhalb kurzen Kapiteln diese und andere Fragen. Sie präsentiert aufschlussreiche Erkenntnisse aus der Forschung, und wir erfahren, wie sich unser Gehirn entwickelt hat, wie es aufgebaut ist (und warum das wichtig ist) und wie es mit anderen Gehirnen zusammenarbeitet, damit wir unseren Alltag bewältigen können: Es ist die Quelle unserer Stärken und unserer Schwächen. Es verleiht uns die Fähigkeit, Zivilisationen aufzubauen, und die Fähigkeit, uns gegenseitig zu zerstören – fangen wir also an, uns mit ihm zu beschäftigen
En siete ensayos breves (además de una breve historia sobre cómo evolucionaron los cerebros), esta colección esbelta, entretenida y accesible revela lecciones que expanden la mente de las primeras líneas de la investigación en neurociencia. Aprenderemos de dónde provienen los cerebros, cómo están estructurados (y por qué es importante) y cómo el nuestro funciona en conjunto con otros cerebros para crear todo lo que experimenta. En el camino, también aprenderemos a descartar mitos populares como la idea de que existe un 'cerebro de lagarto' o la supuesta batalla entre pensamientos y emociones, o incluso entre la naturaleza y la crianza, para determinar su comportamiento.
Gustará e interesará tanto a los lectores casuales como a los veteranos científicos, Siete lecciones y media sobre el cerebro está lleno de sorpresas, humor e implicaciones importantes para la naturaleza humana: un libro de regalo que querrá saborear una y otra vez.
Эта книга совершает революцию в понимании эмоций, разума и мозга. Вас ждет захватывающее путешествие по удивительным маршрутам, с помощь
New to This Edition
*Chapters on the mechanisms, processes, and influences that contribute to emotions (such as genetics, the brain, neuroendocrine processes, language, the senses of taste and smell).
*Chapters on emotion in adolescence and older age, and in neurodegenerative dementias.
*Chapters on facial expressions and emotional body language.
*Chapters on stress, health, gratitude, love, and empathy.
*Many new authors and topics; extensively revised with the latest theoretical and methodological innovations.
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Most psychology research still assumes that mental processes are internal to the person, waiting to be expressed or activated. This compelling book illustrates that a new paradigm is forming in which contextual factors are considered central to the workings of the mind. Leading experts explore how psychological processes emerge from the transactions of individuals with their physical, social, and cultural environments. The volume showcases cutting-edge research on the contextual nature of such phenomena as gene expression, brain networks, the regulation of hormones, perception, cognition, personality, knowing, learning, and emotion.
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