This month we are giving away a copy of The Wandering Mind, by Michael Corballis. To enter the draw, please email your name and address to Alumni Relations Manager Mandy Allan at m.allan@auckland.ac.nz. The winner will be notified on 6 June 2014.
The brain is never inactive, the mind never still. For at least half of our lives, our minds are wandering away from the chores of life - the homework, the tax return, the board meeting, the meal to be cooked, even driving the car. In The Wandering Mind, cognitive psychologist Michael Corballis wanders through the various hills and valleys of mind to explore what we do when we stop paying attention.
Rooted in neuroscience, psychology and evolutionary biology, but written with Corballis’ signature wit and wisdom, The Wandering Mind takes us into the world of the “default-mode network” to tackle the big questions: What do rats dream about? What’s with our fiction addiction? Is the hippocampus where free will takes a holiday? And does mind-wandering drive creativity?
This month we are giving away a copy of The Wandering Mind, by Michael Corballis. To enter the draw, please email your name and address to Alumni Relations Manager Mandy Allan at m.allan@auckland.ac.nz. The winner will be notified on 6 June 2014.
The brain is never inactive, the mind never still. For at least half of our lives, our minds are wandering away from the chores of life - the homework, the tax return, the board meeting, the meal to be cooked, even driving the car. In The Wandering Mind, cognitive psychologist Michael Corballis wanders through the various hills and valleys of mind to explore what we do when we stop paying attention.
Rooted in neuroscience, psychology and evolutionary biology, but written with Corballis’ signature wit and wisdom, The Wandering Mind takes us into the world of the “default-mode network” to tackle the big questions: What do rats dream about? What’s with our fiction addiction? Is the hippocampus where free will takes a holiday? And does mind-wandering drive creativity?In Pieces of Mind, Michael Corballis took 21 short walks around the human brain. In The Wandering Mind he stretches out for a longer hike into those murky regions of the brain where dreams and religion, fiction and fantasy lurk.
Author
Michael Corballis is Professor Emeritus at the University of Auckland. He is the author, most recently, of The Recursive Mind: The Origins of Human Language, Thought and Civilization (Princeton University Press, 2011) and Pieces of Mind: 21 Short Walks around the Human Brain (Auckland University Press, 2011).
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