Brain candy : science, paradoxes, puzzles, logic, and illogic to nourish your neurons / Garth Sundem
- Author
- Sundem, Garth
- Published
- New York : Three Rivers Press, [2010]
- Copyright Date
- ©2010
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Physical Description
- xvii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Contents
- Country Music Kills -- Cool Neurosurgery Past and Present: Trepanation Through Time -- Self-Trepanation -- Intro to Game Theory: Prisoner's Dilemma -- Social Contagion: Happiness and Obesity are Catching -- Too Dumb to Know it -- Smarter Every Day -- The Key to Brain Training -- Game Theory Make Brain Big: Colonel Blotto I -- The Guilty Pleasure of Schadenfreude -- Game Theory Make Brain Big: Colonel Blotto II -- Mirror Neurons: Your Actions in My Head -- Self-Test -- Neural Nets Know All -- Brain Chip: Neural Nets And the Artificial Hippocampus -- Piece of Mind: Hippocampus -- Abnormal Psych: HM (Patient) -- Logic of Illogic: The Tricky Secondary Market and Why Economists Hate Psychology -- Cognitive Costs of Winning and Losing Rock, Paper, Scissors -- Roshambo Winners Guide -- The Hedonometer -- Logic of Illogic: Brain-Deflating Fallacies to Win Any Argument, Part I -- The Calculus of Compassion -- Game Theory Make Brain Big: The Origin of Fairness -- Self-Test -- Mad Pride -- Hear With Your Eyes, Speak With Your Ears -- Piece of Mind: Temporal Lobe -- Psy-OP: Flexible Mind of Mastery -- Inmates Running The Prison: Insane Rulers -- Persian Cow Prince -- Logic of Illogic: Brain-Deflating Fallacies to Win Any Argument, Part II -- The Expressive Body -- Short and Stout, Long and Tall -- Piece of Mind: Hypothalamus -- Genius Tester #1 -- Logic of Illogic: Anchoring -- Ouija Tweet Brain Interface -- Genius Tester #2. Bridge and Torch -- Algebraic Eight-Ball: at What Age Will Technology Overtake Your Ability to Use It? -- Debunked: Self-Affirmation Stinks -- The Economics of Mating I: Monogamy, Polygamy, and Polyamory -- Parasite Brain Punk -- Hang Up and Drive: Your Brain, Split -- Genius Tester #3. Meeting in the Middle -- The Economics of Mating II: Sneaky Female Regulation of the Free Market -- Cool Neurosurgery Past and Present: Prefrontal Lobotomy -- Piece of Mind: Frontal Lobe -- The Economics of Mating III: Female Competition -- Logic of Illogic: Battle Robot -- Piece of Mind: Midbrain -- The Economics of Mating IV: Gender Scarcity -- Clowns' Self-Purpose -- Psy-OP: Moving Walkway -- Nails and the Human Brain -- Piece of Mind: Cerebrum -- Jocks, Nerds, and the Secrets of Success -- But Jocks Get Better Grades -- Atkins Makes You Dumb? -- Logic of Illogic: Brain-Deflating Fallacies to Win Any Argument, Part III -- Genius Tester #4. Boxes of Bars -- Cortical Homunculus -- Psy-OP: Cutting -- Expected Value, Expected Utility, and Prospect Theory -- Logic of Illogic: Luxury Bloodlust -- Game Theory Make Brain Big: Kuhn Poker -- Authority and the Strip-Search Prank Call -- AH, The Teenage (Y)ears -- Logic of Illogic: You Can't Make Me Eat Pie -- Your Personalized Horoscope -- E-Personality -- Self-Test: Personality Snapshot -- Fuzzy Logic -- Asch Conformity Experiments -- Genius Tester #5. Mr. Smith's Children -- Psy-Op: No Soap Radio -- Game Theory Make Brain Big: Guess Two-Thirds of the Average -- Debunked: The Happy Herd -- Genius Tester #6. Four Squares Problem -- The One Must of Happiness -- Self-Test -- Logic of Illogic: Brain-Deflating Fallacies to Win Any Argument, Part IV -- Genetics of Behavior -- Memory I. Alternate Realities -- Logic of Illogic: So God Awfully Boring -- Memory II. Creating False Memories -- Memory III. The Brainworks of Bad Memory -- Here Today, Gone in Milliseconds: Iconic Memory -- Post-Stereotype -- Racial Bias in Standardized Testing? -- Piece of Mind: Cerebellum -- Action and Free Will -- Debunked: Misdiagnosis Immunity -- Debunked: Diagnosis Batshit -- Genius Tester #7. Missing Box -- Coffee and Cigarettes Make You Smarter -- Hot or Not -- Game Theory Make Brain Big: The Shortest Fuse Wins the Battle of the Sexes -- Algebraic Eight-Ball: The Chances That He/She Is "The One" -- If You Say So: Memorable Lies, Forgettable Truths -- The Eight Mental Disorders of 1857 -- Abnormal Psych: Clive Wearing -- Self-Test: A Simple Memory Test -- Game Theory Make Brain Big: El Farol Bar -- Nanotechnology and the Blood-Brain Barrier -- The Diet Paradox: Off-Limits is Open Season -- Ultimate Evil?: Neuroimaging as Market Research Tool -- Piece of Mind: Amygdala -- Fuggedaboutit -- Bad Monkey. No Cucumber -- Game Theory Make Brain Big: Pirate Puzzle -- Blindsight -- Piece of Mind: Occipital Lobe -- Intuition Trumps Reason: The Iowa Gambling Task -- Other Cool Neuropsych Tests -- The Transformative Power of the Unexpected -- Cool Neurosurgery Past and Present: Conscious Neurosurgery -- Handwriting Analysis -- Cranial Nerve Mnemonics -- Knox Box -- Genius Tester #8. Houses and Utilities -- Cool Neurosurgery Past and Present: Corpus Callosotomy -- Piece of Mind: Brodmann Areas -- Psy-Op: Infarction -- Brain Sweat -- Your Brain On Space -- Autism and Legos -- Males' Rat-Brained Navigation -- Piece of Mind: Parietal Lobe -- Game Theory Make Brain Big: Nash Bargaining Game -- The Brainworks of Religious Conviction and Ecstasy -- Self-Test -- I Choose My Choice -- Fear-Then-Relief Prisoner Compliance -- Game Theory Make Brain Big: Signaling Strategies in Bridge and in Job Interviews -- Piece of Mind: Medulla Oblongata -- Placebos Are Getting Stronger -- Meerkats, Macaques, Men, and the Healing Effects of Forgiveness -- Neuroethics -- I Would Never -- Self-Test -- Memorization 101 -- Does Subliminal Advertising Work? -- Self-Test: Quick Memory Check -- Logic of Illogic: K Words -- Genius Tester #9. The Psychology of Getting Suckered -- Psy-OP: Pick a Number, any Number -- Neural Darwinism -- Stretching Phantom Limb Cramps -- Sheeple -- Psy-Op: Phantom Nose -- Game Theory Make Brain Big: Diner's Dilemma -- Logic of Illogic: Fruit Bag -- Abnormal Psych: Phineas Gage -- Is Laughter the Best Medicine? -- The Impact of Tragedy -- Fruit Vs. Veggie Personality Smackdown -- Deflecting Incoming Bloopers -- Piece of Mind: Pons -- Algebraic Eight-Ball: Men, What's Your Sex Appeal? -- Psy-Op: Veggie Math -- Abnormal Psych: Ahad Israfil -- The Burden of Conventional Thinking -- Game Theory Make Brain Big: Peace/War -- Time Travel: Science, Not Science Fiction -- Active Forgetting: The Mental Boxes of Suppression and Repression -- Genius Tester #10. Time Travel -- Ignoring is Exhausting -- Exercise Makes You Smart -- Do Crosswords Keep the Brain Young? -- I Shop, Therefore I am -- Genius Tester #11. The Monty Hall Problem -- Piece of Mind: Thalamus -- Biological Basis of Rose-Colored Glasses -- Genius Tester #12. Dementia Quiz -- The Function of Daydreams -- Mean Stuff in the Name of Science: Little Albert -- The Collective Unconscious -- Algebraic Eight-Ball: The Karmometer-Would Your Karma Survive An Intended Prank? -- Brainwashing The Easy Way -- Four Steps to Persuasion -- Logic of Illogic: The End is Near -- Whiffle Ball Crotch Shot -- Self-Test -- Music, Commerce, and Murder -- Algebraic Eight-Ball: Will Your Holiday Cheer Survive Holiday Dinner? -- Game Theory Make Brain Big: Cake-Cutting Problem -- Un-Apology Apology -- Christmas Carols From the Psych Couch -- Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Badder -- Psy-Op: Hands and Feet -- Genius Tester #13. Gender Bias -- How to Really Spot A Liar -- Red Beats Blue at the Olympics -- Neurological Support For the Use of Shoe Smell in Controlling Epileptic Seizure.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780307588036
0307588033
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