Brain Myths Exploded Pdf

ISBN: B01MUA54I0
Title: Brain Myths Exploded Pdf Lessons from Neuroscience

Much of the layperson's knowledge of the brain is predicated on a lack of understanding about this mysterious organ. To start building a more straightforward, accurate understanding of current breakthroughs in neuroscience, you have to start by shattering popular brain myths.

Each of these 24 lectures takes as its focus a single powerful, prevalent brain myth, and uses it as a launch pad from which to explore myriad topics in neuroscience: decision making, memory, dreams, emotions, neuroplasticity, consciousness, mental illness, and much more.

Our memory is an accurate, objective record of the past. Our senses reflect the world as it really exists. Our dreams have hidden meanings. We are only using 10% of our total brain power. Modern technology (including social media) is making us less intelligent. Dr. Viskontas doesn't just settle for obliterating these and other myths. Instead, she replaces them with scientific facts gathered from experiments, research, and case studies. The result is an eye-opening adventure into the latest understanding of why the brain works the way it does.

Whatever order you enjoy these lectures in, you'll be left with insights that will help you better determine the hard scientific truths behind the breaking news (and myths) of tomorrow.

Indre Viskontas Ignores the Scientific Evidence Supporting Evolutionary Psychology The author does not understand the science of evolutionary psychology and rejects the clear scientific evidence that robustly supports the claims and predictions of evolutionary psychology. The author supports the Standard Social Science Model that culture is the primary force that shapes the human brain/mind. All human behavior is a product of both genetic predispositions and environment. However, twin studies robustly support the primacy of our genetic predispositions in determining behavior, a well-known fact in the scientific community of which the author seems to be unaware. Evolutionary psychology is the science of human nature and informs all fields of psychology and neuroscience. Without it, the scientific claims of people like the author are unsupportable. If you want to understand the brain from a truly accurate scientific perspective, one must read Steven Pinker, Gad Saad, and David Buss among many others and not this author.Well executed book Interesting, concise, and pleasurable for everyone!The lecture series is a wonderful exception to the usual drudgery An absolute must listen.Human brain is about the single most important organ for life on this planet as of now. Even as a large number of us develop an ever deeper understanding of subjects ranging from the big bang and black holes to artificial intelligence or genetics, what we - the non-experts - understand about human brains is pitifully low. Neuroscience is not only extremely incomplete but enormously complicated when explained in the standard, theoretical ways. Too many terms with exotic names, almost no logical/deductive explanation streams make explanations about the working of this organ nothing but a long string of facts that exist without any rhyme or reason.The lecture series is a wonderful exception to the usual drudgery. The lecturer creates crisp narratives to impart great learnings without allowing things to get complicated almost ever. This series makes it possible to appreciate the working of brains without having to learn the underlying, immensely complex biochemistry. Yes, some of the debunked myths are too simplistic and some appear like artificially-propped strawmen to make stories, but almost every section offers valuable insights. And the lecturer is warmingly humorous and charmingly self-deprecating.This series is far and away the easiest read/listen on neuroscience for a lay reader like me and remarkably, it still does not appear to have compromised on the learning quotient.

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