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Antonio Damasio, a neuroscientist at the University of Southern California, has found that the absence of emotion—the actual clinical inability to experience emotion caused by lesions to an area of the brain called the VMPFC, the ventromedial prefrontal cortex—can cause people to go broke on a gambling task.
Maria Konnikova • The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
it’s a matter of reflexively taking the correct action.
Henry L. Roediger III • Make It Stick
memory is all about associations.
Daniel J. Siegel • The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
Neuroscientists now think of the brain as an ever-changing ecosystem crackling with electrochemical energy from which our thoughts, emotions, and intentions arise, rather than a collection of blinking neural islands.
Sally Satel • Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience
The human brain has evolved to hide from us those things we are not paying attention
Daniel J. Levitin • The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
we can remember without being aware we are remembering, and that even memories we are unable to recall consciously are capable of exerting a measurable influence over our behavior.
Dr. David Lewis • The Brain Sell: How the new mind sciences and the persuasion industry are reading our thoughts, influencing our emotions, and stimulating us to shop
While the trained mnemonists toiled away in geeky obscurity, Daniel’s medicalized condition had generated enormous popular interest.
Joshua Foer • Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
memory is the residue of thought and organization helps memory.
Daniel T. Willingham • Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning is Hard and How You Can Make It Easy
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