Making up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World

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Wiley, Feb 9, 2009 - Psychology - 256 pages
Written by one of the world’s leading neuroscientists, Making Up the Mind is the first accessible account of experimental studies showing how the brain creates our mental world.

  • Uses evidence from brain imaging, psychological experiments and studies of patients to explore the relationship between the mind and the brain
  • Demonstrates that our knowledge of both the mental and physical comes to us through models created by our brain
  • Shows how the brain makes communication of ideas from one mind to another possible

About the author (2009)

Chris Frith is Professor in Neuropsychology at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London. His publications include Schizophrenia: A Very Short Introduction (2003, with Eve C. Johnstone) and The Neuroscience of Social Interaction (2004, edited with Daniel Wolpert).

Bibliographic information

TitleMaking up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World
AuthorChris Frith
PublisherWiley, 2009
ISBN1405172711, 9781405172714
Length256 pages
Subjects › 

Psychology / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
Psychology / General
  
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