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        This exploration into the moment-by-moment works of the brain uses cognitive neuroscience 
        to present experiments, tricks, and tips related to vision, motor skills, attention, 
        cognition, and subliminal perception. Each hack examines specific operations of the brain. 
        By seeing how the brain responds, you'll learn more about how the brain is put together. 
        If you want to find out what's going on in your head, then Mind Hacks is the key.
      
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        The brain is a fearsomely complex information-processing environment--one that often 
        eludes our ability to understand it. At any given time, the brain is collecting, 
        filtering, and analyzing information and, in response, performing countless intricate 
        processes, some of which are automatic, some voluntary, some conscious, and some 
        unconscious. Cognitive neuroscience is one of the ways we have to understand the workings 
        of our minds. It's the study of the brain biology behind our mental functions: a 
        collection of methods--like brain scanning and computational modeling--combined with a way 
        of looking at psychological phenomena and discovering where, why, and how the brain makes 
        them happen. Want to know more? Mind Hacks is a collection of probes into the 
        moment-by-moment works of the brain. Using cognitive neuroscience, these experiments, 
        tricks, and tips related to vision, motor skills, attention, cognition, subliminal 
        perception, and more throw light on how the human brain works. Each hack examines specific 
        operations of the brain. By seeing how the brain responds, we pick up clues about the 
        architecture and design of the brain, learning a little bit more about how the brain is 
        put together. Mind Hacks begins your exploration of the mind with a look inside the brain 
        itself, using hacks such as "Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: Turn On and Off Bits of 
        the Brain" and "Tour the Cortex and the Four Lobes." Also among the 100 hacks in this 
        book, you'll find:
      
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            * Release Eye Fixations for Faster Reactions
      
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            * See Movement When All is Still
      
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            * Feel the Presence and Loss of Attention
      
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            * Detect Sounds on the Margins of Certainty
      
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            * Mold Your Body Schema
      
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            * Test Your Handedness
      
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            * See a Person in Moving Lights
      
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            * Make Events Understandable as Cause-and-Effect
      
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            * Boost Memory by Using Context
      
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            * Understand Detail and the Limits of Attention
      
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        Steven Johnson, author of "Mind Wide Open" writes in his foreword to the book, "These 
        hacks amaze because they reveal the brain's hidden logic; they shed light on the cheats 
        and shortcuts and latent assumptions our brains make about the world." If you want to know 
        more about what's going on in your head, then Mind Hacks is the key--let yourself play 
        with the interface between you and the world.
      
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