Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To

Name: Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To
Rating: 4.125 (8 reviews)

Dean Burnett

Jul 2016 · W. W. Norton & Company

4.1

8 reviews

Ebook

336

Pages

About this ebook

"Entertaining…[A] grand tour around modern cognitive science and psychology." —Wall Street Journal

The brain is an absolute marvel—the seat of our consciousness, the pinnacle (so far) of evolutionary progress, and the engine of human experience. But it’s also messy, fallible, and about 50,000 years out of date. We cling to superstitions, remember faces but not names, miss things sitting right in front of us, and lie awake at night while our brains endlessly replay our greatest fears. Idiot Brain is for anyone who has ever wondered why their brain appears to be sabotaging their life—and what on earth it is really up to.

A Library Journal Science Bestseller and a Finalist for the Goodreads Choice Award in Science & Technology.

Ratings and reviews

4.1

8 reviews

Audrey DAVIS

August 12, 2016

This book struck me as a path to understanding how messed up my brain has been in the past.A HARD HIT TO THE HEAD,Can take you on a bad journey!Still on that journey now! With. Your books!Thank you Dean.Burnett...

1 person found this review helpful

A Google user

November 3, 2018

Insitefull

3 people found this review helpful

About the author

Dean Burnett is a neuroscientist and research associate at the Centre for Medical Education at Cardiff University. He writes a popular science blog called Brain Yapping for the Cosmic Shambles Network and dabbles in stand-up comedy. He lives in Cardiff, Wales.

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