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The Superhuman Mind: Free the Genius in Your Brain
Did you know your brain has superpowers?
Berit Brogaard, PhD, and Kristian Marlow, MA, study people with astonishing talents—memory champions, human echolocators, musical virtuosos, math geniuses, and synesthetes who taste colors and hear faces. But as amazing as these abilities are, they are not mysterious. Our brains constantly process a huge amount of information below our awareness, and what these gifted individuals have in common is that through practice, injury, an innate brain disorder, or even more unusual circumstances, they have managed to gain a degree of conscious access to this potent processing power.
The Superhuman Mind takes us inside the lives and brains of geniuses, savants, virtuosos, and a wide variety of ordinary people who have acquired truly extraordinary talents, one way or another. Delving into the neurological underpinnings of these abilities, the authors even reveal how we can acquire some of them ourselves—from perfect pitch and lightning fast math skills to supercharged creativity.
The Superhuman Mind is a book full of the fascinating science readers look for from the likes of Oliver Sacks, combined with the exhilarating promise of Moonwalking with Einstein.
Berit Brogaard, PhD, and Kristian Marlow, MA, study people with astonishing talents—memory champions, human echolocators, musical virtuosos, math geniuses, and synesthetes who taste colors and hear faces. But as amazing as these abilities are, they are not mysterious. Our brains constantly process a huge amount of information below our awareness, and what these gifted individuals have in common is that through practice, injury, an innate brain disorder, or even more unusual circumstances, they have managed to gain a degree of conscious access to this potent processing power.
The Superhuman Mind takes us inside the lives and brains of geniuses, savants, virtuosos, and a wide variety of ordinary people who have acquired truly extraordinary talents, one way or another. Delving into the neurological underpinnings of these abilities, the authors even reveal how we can acquire some of them ourselves—from perfect pitch and lightning fast math skills to supercharged creativity.
The Superhuman Mind is a book full of the fascinating science readers look for from the likes of Oliver Sacks, combined with the exhilarating promise of Moonwalking with Einstein.
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First published May 1, 2015
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April 18, 2016
I confess I was sceptical about this one, despite the PhD author. A student lent this to me, though, and in addition to generally trying to keep an open mind, I like to take an interest in what students are reading. So while I probably wouldn’t have picked up The Superhuman Mind on my own, I gave it a try—and it was all right. The rhetoric was not as hyperbolic as I feared, and the scientific aspects were pretty fascinating. It doesn’t have the same kind of intense hook or narrative that some books have—the writing is easy to follow but not overly engaging—but the subject matter is pretty cool.
Neuroscience fascinates me, as does philosophy of mind. What makes us who we are? Berit Brogaard and her coauthor, Kristian Marlow, discuss various examples of how the brain can exceed its seemingly “ordinary” capacities to engage in “superhuman” tasks. Brogaard draws on her research on savants, synesthetes, and other people who have abnormal or extraordinary abilities caused by brain function. Her central thesis is that these abilities are not just granted through accident (of birth or circumstance) but can be replicated or learned by almost anyone, provided we have a good enough understanding of how they come about.
Frankly, we need more books like this. Once upon a time I watched a movie called Lucy. It was, quite simply, one of the worst movies I have ever watched. The plot was an utter trainwreck of uninspired scenes stitched together somewhat haphazardly, with garbage science tossed around with the impunity of someone who watched The Core and thought, “Hmm, this is too scientifically accurate.” They take the “we only use 10% of our brain” myth—a myth I loathe with the fire of three hundred suns—and crank it up to 11. It’s so ridiculous it should be silly and fun, but it takes itself so seriously and artsy that it falls incredibly flat.
But I digress.
The 10% myth isn’t the only brain myth that needs to die. Whenever people hear I teach both mathematics and English, they react with surprise, and many of them make a comment along the lines of, “Oh, you use both sides of your brain!” Yeah, because everyone else just goes through life using half a brain. Well, OK, maybe it seems that way! If they bring up the left brain/right brain thing, though, I have to say, “Well, actually, the left brain is also typically the dominant hemisphere for language as well.”
So there.
My point is that our understanding of brain function has advanced considerably in the past fifty years, but our education on the brain has not. The general public still has a very vague idea of how our brains work. This ignorance, combined with the proliferation of various myths, is not just inconvenient but can also be dangerous: it leads to stigma around mental health and traumatic brain injury; it reinforces stereotypes of gender (and even race!); and it leads to people basing important decisions on mistaken or pseudo-scientific information.
The Superhuman Mind goes a long way towards informing its reader about the wonders of the human brain, laying out what we know and how we know it, along with what we don’t know or need to find out next. It sheds light on the savant abilities of people with autism, traumatic brain injury, and other brain function that differs from the “norm.” Brogaard explains how these abilities work—at least as far as we know right now—and how people might acquire them without sacrificing chunks of grey and white matter.
Neuroplasticity is a fascinating idea, and a complex one, and I’m not going to try to explain it here. I like, however, that Brogaard explores how practice influences the brain. It’s not just the practice is building up memories—it’s rewiring our neural connections, training the brain to dedicate specific pathways to certain tasks. This is adjacent to the bigger discussion around nature and nurture: some people seem born with savant abilities, and others acquire them suddenly in similarly “natural” experiences; yet, Brogaard contends, it is entirely possible to learn these abilities like one might learn to play piano.
As much as I enjoyed the book, I really hate the way it is being marketed by cover and copy decisions. My copy has the subtitle “Free the Genius in Your Brain” (only slightly different from “How to Unleash Your Inner Genius”), and the back quotes extensively from the book’s own foreword, talking about the “superbrain.” All in all it just comes across like this is supposed to be one of those gimmicky The Secret–like books that will give you powers over matter and the universe itself. It isn’t. It’s hard science at its best, albeit told through some scattered and disorganized narratives about individual patients and larger studies.
The Superhuman Mind is informative and interesting. It talks about the brain, and neuroscience, in an unconventional but still utterly rational, thoughtful way. I liked those aspects. At times it doesn’t deliver what I generally want from a non-fiction read, in terms of style and feel, but those seem like minor and very personal quibbles. If, like me, you wonder how we tick beneath these skulls of ours, you might like giving this a shot.
Neuroscience fascinates me, as does philosophy of mind. What makes us who we are? Berit Brogaard and her coauthor, Kristian Marlow, discuss various examples of how the brain can exceed its seemingly “ordinary” capacities to engage in “superhuman” tasks. Brogaard draws on her research on savants, synesthetes, and other people who have abnormal or extraordinary abilities caused by brain function. Her central thesis is that these abilities are not just granted through accident (of birth or circumstance) but can be replicated or learned by almost anyone, provided we have a good enough understanding of how they come about.
Frankly, we need more books like this. Once upon a time I watched a movie called Lucy. It was, quite simply, one of the worst movies I have ever watched. The plot was an utter trainwreck of uninspired scenes stitched together somewhat haphazardly, with garbage science tossed around with the impunity of someone who watched The Core and thought, “Hmm, this is too scientifically accurate.” They take the “we only use 10% of our brain” myth—a myth I loathe with the fire of three hundred suns—and crank it up to 11. It’s so ridiculous it should be silly and fun, but it takes itself so seriously and artsy that it falls incredibly flat.
But I digress.
The 10% myth isn’t the only brain myth that needs to die. Whenever people hear I teach both mathematics and English, they react with surprise, and many of them make a comment along the lines of, “Oh, you use both sides of your brain!” Yeah, because everyone else just goes through life using half a brain. Well, OK, maybe it seems that way! If they bring up the left brain/right brain thing, though, I have to say, “Well, actually, the left brain is also typically the dominant hemisphere for language as well.”
So there.
My point is that our understanding of brain function has advanced considerably in the past fifty years, but our education on the brain has not. The general public still has a very vague idea of how our brains work. This ignorance, combined with the proliferation of various myths, is not just inconvenient but can also be dangerous: it leads to stigma around mental health and traumatic brain injury; it reinforces stereotypes of gender (and even race!); and it leads to people basing important decisions on mistaken or pseudo-scientific information.
The Superhuman Mind goes a long way towards informing its reader about the wonders of the human brain, laying out what we know and how we know it, along with what we don’t know or need to find out next. It sheds light on the savant abilities of people with autism, traumatic brain injury, and other brain function that differs from the “norm.” Brogaard explains how these abilities work—at least as far as we know right now—and how people might acquire them without sacrificing chunks of grey and white matter.
Neuroplasticity is a fascinating idea, and a complex one, and I’m not going to try to explain it here. I like, however, that Brogaard explores how practice influences the brain. It’s not just the practice is building up memories—it’s rewiring our neural connections, training the brain to dedicate specific pathways to certain tasks. This is adjacent to the bigger discussion around nature and nurture: some people seem born with savant abilities, and others acquire them suddenly in similarly “natural” experiences; yet, Brogaard contends, it is entirely possible to learn these abilities like one might learn to play piano.
As much as I enjoyed the book, I really hate the way it is being marketed by cover and copy decisions. My copy has the subtitle “Free the Genius in Your Brain” (only slightly different from “How to Unleash Your Inner Genius”), and the back quotes extensively from the book’s own foreword, talking about the “superbrain.” All in all it just comes across like this is supposed to be one of those gimmicky The Secret–like books that will give you powers over matter and the universe itself. It isn’t. It’s hard science at its best, albeit told through some scattered and disorganized narratives about individual patients and larger studies.
The Superhuman Mind is informative and interesting. It talks about the brain, and neuroscience, in an unconventional but still utterly rational, thoughtful way. I liked those aspects. At times it doesn’t deliver what I generally want from a non-fiction read, in terms of style and feel, but those seem like minor and very personal quibbles. If, like me, you wonder how we tick beneath these skulls of ours, you might like giving this a shot.
July 3, 2015
I received this book from a giveaway at good reads. "The Superhuman Mind: How To Unleash Your Inner Genius" by Berit Brogaard and Kristian Marlow has been a very insightful read. For such a complex topic, the authors were able to thoroughly explain the topics within the book for the average reader who isn't so familiar with how the brain works. This is the one of the major reasons why I rated this book four out of five. The other reason is that I personally have an obsession with becoming the "better" version of myself and anything that can help me become that better version is a worthwhile read and this is definitely a worthy read. It goes into the minds of geniuses, savants, and those with autism, which have truly extraordinary gifts, such as being able to see black and white squares in front of them and being able to compose a piece of music from it, which is a form of synesthesia. Now although the ordinary person may not be able to acquire this sort of talent. (Unless you get into an accident, which damages your brain and you come out with these sort of abilities(rare). In other words, don't go out bashing your heads hoping to acquire these extraordinary talents. There is a way we can acquire synesthesia without getting harmed(associate synesthesia.) By learning what happens to the minds of these individuals it can help us unleash the same kind of feats that lay dormant within us. For an example, many autistic individuals are able to know whether a day is Tuesday by just hearing the date and the good news is, is that we can too by the DOOMSDAY method. Also being able to remember a long series of numbers by using a sort of algorithm or associating with something else that creates a powerful emotion. Basically learning shortcuts, which DO WORK! I went a found a few shortcuts myself, because of this book opened by understanding of the brain and now I am able to do a few small tricks. Such as being able to know what number was cubed when given the cubed answer in a matter of a seconds without a calculator. Or being able to remember list of objects or numbers.
The book has a deep rooting in "Left brain vs Right Brain," topic which has been proven to be a myth. So this is the only thing that may turn others away, but nonetheless it has a powerful message. Towards the ending of the book going more towards the technology and methaphyscial side of things. Some questions that they attack are; How we may be able to unleash the brains power using technology? and Is there a such thing as consciousness, or is our mind just a computer?"
To end this review off, one other interesting question is, "Are we forever limited by the biological wetware endowed to us through evolution?" The answer they propose is, that maybe one day we will be able to upload our brain into the "cloud" by going to this "Brainbank." We then will move our mind to the computer and live a virtual reality without our physical body. I wonder how that would feel like. Just some food for thought.
The book has a deep rooting in "Left brain vs Right Brain," topic which has been proven to be a myth. So this is the only thing that may turn others away, but nonetheless it has a powerful message. Towards the ending of the book going more towards the technology and methaphyscial side of things. Some questions that they attack are; How we may be able to unleash the brains power using technology? and Is there a such thing as consciousness, or is our mind just a computer?"
To end this review off, one other interesting question is, "Are we forever limited by the biological wetware endowed to us through evolution?" The answer they propose is, that maybe one day we will be able to upload our brain into the "cloud" by going to this "Brainbank." We then will move our mind to the computer and live a virtual reality without our physical body. I wonder how that would feel like. Just some food for thought.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 5, 2015
Excellent introduction to how our brain works, notably making up for faculties adversely affected.
The authors present the material in an engaging way, using real-life examples successfully. By tying these real-life stories into the associated anatomical processes, they make the science behind it appear approachable, succeeding in engaging the reader.
If nothing else, you'll learn and remember a "party trick" of calculating the day of the week for any date from 1800-2200 using a very simple "Doomsday Calendar" approach. :) Jokes apart, I learnt a lot more about narratives, savants, and brain-conditions than I had hoped for.
All in all, a great read.
The authors present the material in an engaging way, using real-life examples successfully. By tying these real-life stories into the associated anatomical processes, they make the science behind it appear approachable, succeeding in engaging the reader.
If nothing else, you'll learn and remember a "party trick" of calculating the day of the week for any date from 1800-2200 using a very simple "Doomsday Calendar" approach. :) Jokes apart, I learnt a lot more about narratives, savants, and brain-conditions than I had hoped for.
All in all, a great read.
October 2, 2018
a lot of interesting case studies.
i think many readers looking into it might be disappointed that the subtitle "how to unleash your inner genius" is rather misleading, unless you're able to apply magnetic stimulation to your brain, activating otherwise latent abilities. there's also the option to take lsd or eat magic mushrooms and the like. mnemonics, hitting your head and damaging specific brain regions (acquired savant syndrome). i do wonder about training yourself to be a quasi-synesthete through coloured text so you associate certain lettets with concrete colours.
i think many readers looking into it might be disappointed that the subtitle "how to unleash your inner genius" is rather misleading, unless you're able to apply magnetic stimulation to your brain, activating otherwise latent abilities. there's also the option to take lsd or eat magic mushrooms and the like. mnemonics, hitting your head and damaging specific brain regions (acquired savant syndrome). i do wonder about training yourself to be a quasi-synesthete through coloured text so you associate certain lettets with concrete colours.
November 19, 2017
I gave this book a try. I really did. I even tried the exercises in it.
I just can't get behind the whole "Unleashing Your Inner Genius" part.
I understand that, with practice, you can re-wire your brain to think a certain way. However, that study has been shown repeatedly. There's nothing revolutionary about the content here.
I just can't get behind the whole "Unleashing Your Inner Genius" part.
I understand that, with practice, you can re-wire your brain to think a certain way. However, that study has been shown repeatedly. There's nothing revolutionary about the content here.
November 10, 2018
The book proposes to "Free the genius in your brain". There are certainly many examples of people who have savant-like gifts, but the book doesn't really live up to its proposition. It talks a lot about potential which is illuminating however it tends to the academic and was not quite the self-help psychology it purports to be.
March 12, 2019
A slightly entertaining review of people with unusual mental abilities. The author claimed that anyone could also learn to have an unusual ability to work with their own mind. Not really pertinent to that at all. By about half way through the book, the author gets boring with his tales.
December 27, 2017
This was fascinating. The human brain is amazing.
August 18, 2017
Don't expect to actually unleash your inner genius.
April 14, 2018
Too little actual information on unleashing actual genius, too much discussion of the same dozen cases of unusual minds.
October 4, 2019
A revelation
March 5, 2017
Very interesting information on the science of improving mental ability but I was hoping for more practical process for each of us to perform to successfully make improvements. Exercises, training procedures or other methods that I could work on to make improvement on my own were not discussed.
November 26, 2018
ONE SENTENCE DESCRIPTION
Overview of a variety of strange phenomenon from neuroscience
CONCEPTUAL OVERVIEW
Synesthesia is the binding of neurons where they normally wouldn’t or would unbind from age. Typically happens at youth. Can be trained to a certain degree, but is unnecessary, since the type of synesthesia granted is not strong.
Something I realized about synesthesia is that as cool as it sounds on paper, its really not that special. Its just something people experience that is abnormal. To them, it is as surprising as seeing a black lamp, that is, not at all.
Injury can trigger brain superpowers from having damaged areas compensated with overconcentration in others. Same with dementia ability onsets.
Serotonin reduction helps depression and anxiety responses. High levels at birth could cause autism.
Analogy: Learning can be seen as an algorithm
In general, neurons either die or de-myelinate. More often the latter. Remembering slowly versus never respectively. New neurons can form too, a common misconception is that they can’t.
Pre-speaking babies can be taught basic sign language! Try it someday…
Mnemonics can teach perfect pitch, memory, languages and calendar calculation.
Humans can apparently echolocate.
What makes damaged brains better at drawing is that they remove their understanding of the whole picture for details. This is what makes them strong artists. We normal humans learn art through dissociating the whole from its sum of parts, whereas they already do this then only need to establish coordination.
Computer Science: A driver is a translation medium that allows one device to communicate to another in their languages. Relevance: the mind needs a driver to uplink it to computers (assuming general compatibility).
CONTENTS
(empty)
SPECULATION
(empty)
QUOTES
REVIEW
Ok book. Not a whole lot of novel information. Author missed out on the Daniel Tammet scam that Joshua Foer exposes and uses him as anecdotal evidence. The neuroscience is presented lightly but correctly. Sometimes the writing is stupid. What this book does right is compile all the interesting and abnormal phenomenon from neuroscience that are beneficial to humans, that is, ‘superhuman abilities’.
WORTH READING IF STUDIED REVIEW?
Maybe, depends if you’ve read other neuroscience books.
RATING
2/5
Overview of a variety of strange phenomenon from neuroscience
CONCEPTUAL OVERVIEW
Synesthesia is the binding of neurons where they normally wouldn’t or would unbind from age. Typically happens at youth. Can be trained to a certain degree, but is unnecessary, since the type of synesthesia granted is not strong.
Something I realized about synesthesia is that as cool as it sounds on paper, its really not that special. Its just something people experience that is abnormal. To them, it is as surprising as seeing a black lamp, that is, not at all.
Injury can trigger brain superpowers from having damaged areas compensated with overconcentration in others. Same with dementia ability onsets.
Serotonin reduction helps depression and anxiety responses. High levels at birth could cause autism.
Analogy: Learning can be seen as an algorithm
In general, neurons either die or de-myelinate. More often the latter. Remembering slowly versus never respectively. New neurons can form too, a common misconception is that they can’t.
Pre-speaking babies can be taught basic sign language! Try it someday…
Mnemonics can teach perfect pitch, memory, languages and calendar calculation.
Humans can apparently echolocate.
What makes damaged brains better at drawing is that they remove their understanding of the whole picture for details. This is what makes them strong artists. We normal humans learn art through dissociating the whole from its sum of parts, whereas they already do this then only need to establish coordination.
Computer Science: A driver is a translation medium that allows one device to communicate to another in their languages. Relevance: the mind needs a driver to uplink it to computers (assuming general compatibility).
CONTENTS
(empty)
SPECULATION
(empty)
QUOTES
REVIEW
Ok book. Not a whole lot of novel information. Author missed out on the Daniel Tammet scam that Joshua Foer exposes and uses him as anecdotal evidence. The neuroscience is presented lightly but correctly. Sometimes the writing is stupid. What this book does right is compile all the interesting and abnormal phenomenon from neuroscience that are beneficial to humans, that is, ‘superhuman abilities’.
WORTH READING IF STUDIED REVIEW?
Maybe, depends if you’ve read other neuroscience books.
RATING
2/5
December 31, 2015
Brogaard is a philosopher operating a lab on multisensory research at the University of Miami. Her co-author, Kristian Marlow, is a researcher and graduate student at the lab. The book can be best summarized by the first paragraph of Chapter 10:
"In this book we have explored the boundaries of seemingly superhuman mental ability. Our brain is capable of incredible things, but often they're only triggered or brought to the surface through accidents or rare situations. We have explored a number of cases of people who have developed extraordinary mental abilities following accidents or special circumstances or who were born with brain abnormalities. What's interesting about all these cases is that they show us how the neurotypical brains could come to function. It shows that superhuman ability is not an ethereal property of profound indivduals. It's not a gift bestowed upon the lucky few, but probably something closer to an inborn propensity that is latent in most of us."
Along with describing the "superhuman" abilities of several realms of perception (e.g., seeing numbers as colors), mathematics (mutliplying several long numbers faster than a computer), and memorization (recalling 20,000+ digits of pi) among other talents, the authors describe some practical suggestions and exercises for us ordinary mortals to use to expand our own minds. While not yet able to approach the superhuman mental abilities of the savants the authors study and write about, the rest of us can improve our memories and mathematical abilities. Further research may lead to the day when everyone will have greater access to the latent powers hidden in the deeper recesses of our brains.
"In this book we have explored the boundaries of seemingly superhuman mental ability. Our brain is capable of incredible things, but often they're only triggered or brought to the surface through accidents or rare situations. We have explored a number of cases of people who have developed extraordinary mental abilities following accidents or special circumstances or who were born with brain abnormalities. What's interesting about all these cases is that they show us how the neurotypical brains could come to function. It shows that superhuman ability is not an ethereal property of profound indivduals. It's not a gift bestowed upon the lucky few, but probably something closer to an inborn propensity that is latent in most of us."
Along with describing the "superhuman" abilities of several realms of perception (e.g., seeing numbers as colors), mathematics (mutliplying several long numbers faster than a computer), and memorization (recalling 20,000+ digits of pi) among other talents, the authors describe some practical suggestions and exercises for us ordinary mortals to use to expand our own minds. While not yet able to approach the superhuman mental abilities of the savants the authors study and write about, the rest of us can improve our memories and mathematical abilities. Further research may lead to the day when everyone will have greater access to the latent powers hidden in the deeper recesses of our brains.
February 9, 2017
Excellent reading for anyone that wants to try and understand the inner workings of our brains. Many fascinating people, with extraordinary talents.
October 27, 2017
Fan di Brian Finch (Limitless) o di Rachel Pirzad (Alphas)? ^__^
Dai direttori del Brogaard Lab for Multisensory Research (istituto a quanto pare scomparso dal web, e il cui ultimo post Facebook risale ad aprile 2014 e riguarda proprio l'uscita di questo libro), una rassegna di casi sul fenomeno dei "savant" e sulla sinestesia, ben spiegati dal punto di vista neuroscientifico. Riguardo le metodologie per sviluppare sinergie e sostituzioni sensoriali, se ne fa naturalmente ampio cenno ma senza reali approfondimenti pratici, al massimo si rimanda a qualche link (in buona parte non più validi). Un volume molto comunque interessante da un punto di vista informativo, scritto in modo scorrevole e comprensibile. Tempo di lettura: circa 9 ore.
Dai direttori del Brogaard Lab for Multisensory Research (istituto a quanto pare scomparso dal web, e il cui ultimo post Facebook risale ad aprile 2014 e riguarda proprio l'uscita di questo libro), una rassegna di casi sul fenomeno dei "savant" e sulla sinestesia, ben spiegati dal punto di vista neuroscientifico. Riguardo le metodologie per sviluppare sinergie e sostituzioni sensoriali, se ne fa naturalmente ampio cenno ma senza reali approfondimenti pratici, al massimo si rimanda a qualche link (in buona parte non più validi). Un volume molto comunque interessante da un punto di vista informativo, scritto in modo scorrevole e comprensibile. Tempo di lettura: circa 9 ore.
November 13, 2018
This is chock full of good info and reference to studies and human examples. However, I found myself skimming quite a bit after the first few chapters, looking for more info on how to “free the genius.” I skipped to the last chapter and was somewhat gratified. Then I went back and read the rest of the book, skimming occasionally, and found the chapter on sleep and lucid dreaming the most helpful.
Chapter 9 stirred up the disturbing prospect of artificial general intelligence (AGI) and singularity (when the intelligence of computers exceeds intelligence levels of humans.) I truly didn’t think that this could happen but perhaps I’ve just been deluding myself.
Chapter 9 stirred up the disturbing prospect of artificial general intelligence (AGI) and singularity (when the intelligence of computers exceeds intelligence levels of humans.) I truly didn’t think that this could happen but perhaps I’ve just been deluding myself.
June 21, 2015
This book by Brogard and Marlow was received as a Goodreads first read. I am very pleased to have received the book. Had never heard ofsynesthesia before and had no idea of the vast amount of work the area of extraordinary brain skills etc has received. This is a scholarly book but written for the layperson to read and understand so we can learn how to take better advantage of our wonderful brains. A good read.
J. Robert Ewbank author "John Wesley, Natural Man, and the Isms" "Wesley's Wars" and "To Whom It May Concern"
J. Robert Ewbank author "John Wesley, Natural Man, and the Isms" "Wesley's Wars" and "To Whom It May Concern"
December 11, 2016
Interesting book that describes the development of extraordinary abilities in the brains of savants where brain damage and brain plasticity cause our brains to develop abilities such as bat-like echolocation in blind people and brilliant musical or artistic abilities in those with left-brain damage.
October 22, 2015
Fascinating book on exploring, understanding, and harnessing the most important organ and capacity in the human body--the mind. This book traverses the possibilities we all have inside us-- propelling us further than ever toward fully maximizing both the brain and human potential.
February 7, 2016
Train, train, train your brain!
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October 7, 2016This is a really fascinating book about synesthesia.
Read
September 1, 2024Good overview/compilation of ways that brain plasticity can be directed toward specific goals. Sort of an embarrassing title.
April 19, 2017
We become what we think about, literally, scientifically research.
A must!
A must!
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