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The wandering mind, what the brain does when you're not looking, Michael C. Corballis

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The wandering mind, what the brain does when you're not looking, Michael C. Corballis
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The wandering mind
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Michael C. Corballis
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what the brain does when you're not looking
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COGNITION & COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY. If I've done my job well - and, let's be honest, if I'm lucky - you'll read to the end of this piece of copy. Most likely, however, you won't. Somewhere in the middle of the next paragraph, your mind will wander off. Minds wander. That's just how it is. That may be bad news for me, but is it bad news for people in general? Does the fact that as much as fifty percent of our waking hours find us failing to focus on the task at hand represent a problem? Michael Corballis doesn't think so, and with The Wandering Mind, he shows us why, rehabilitating woolgathering and revealing its incredibly useful effects. Drawing on the latest research from cognitive science and evolutionary biology, Corballis shows us how mind-wandering not only frees us from moment-to-moment drudgery, but also from the limitations of our immediate selves
Table Of Contents
Meandering brain, wandering mind -- Memory -- On time -- The hippo in the brain -- Wandering into other minds -- Stories -- Tigers in the night -- Hallucinations -- The creativity of the wandering mind
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