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Johnson S.
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Webb M
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Mind Hacks
Mind Hacks
Table of Contents
Copyright
Dedication
Preface
Why Mind Hacks?
How to Use This Book
How This Book Is Organized
Conventions Used in This Book
Using Material from This Book
How to Contact Us
Got a Hack?
Chapter 1. Inside the Brain
Section 1.1. Hacks 1-12
Hack1.Find Out How the Brain Works Without Looking Inside
Hack2.Electroencephalogram: Getting the Big Picture with EEGs
Hack3.Positron Emission Tomography: Measuring Activity Indirectly with PET
Hack4.Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: The State of the Art
Hack5.Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: Turn On and Off Bits of the Brain
Hack6.Neuropsychology, the 10 Myth, and Why You Use All of Your Brain
Hack7.Get Acquainted with the Central Nervous System
Hack8.Tour the Cortex and the Four Lobes
Hack9.The Neuron
Hack10.Detect the Effect of Cognitive Function on Cerebral Blood Flow
Hack11.Why People Don t Work Like Elevator Buttons
Hack12.Build Your Own Sensory Homunculus
Chapter 2. Seeing
Section 2.1. Hacks 13-33
Hack13.Understand Visual Processing
Hack14.See the Limits of Your Vision
Hack15.To See, Act
Hack16.Map Your Blind Spot
Hack17.Glimpse the Gaps in Your Vision
Hack18.When Time Stands Still
Hack19.Release Eye Fixations for Faster Reactions
Hack20.Fool Yourself into Seeing 3D
Hack21.Objects Move, Lighting Shouldn t
Hack22.Depth Matters
Hack23.See How Brightness Differs from Luminance: The Checker Shadow Illusion
Hack24.Create Illusionary Depth with Sunglasses
Hack25.See Movement When All Is Still
Hack26.Get Adjusted
Hack27.Show Motion Without Anything Moving
Hack28.Motion Extrapolation: The
Hack29.Turn Gliding Blocks into Stepping Feet
Hack30.Understand the Rotating Snakes Illusion
Hack31.Minimize Imaginary Distances
Hack32.Explore Your Defense Hardware
Hack33.Neural Noise Isnt a Bug
Chapter 3. Attention
Section 3.1. Hacks 34-43
Hack34.Detail and the Limits of Attention
Hack35.Count Faster with Subitizing
Hack36.Feel the Presence and Loss of Attention
Hack37.Grab Attention
Hack38.Don t Look Back
Hack39.Avoid Holes in Attention
Hack40.Blind to Change
Hack41.Make Things Invisible Simply by Concentrating (on Something Else)
Hack42.The Brain Punishes Features that Cry Wolf
Hack43.Improve Visual Attention Through Video Games
Chapter 4. Hearing and Language
Section 4.1. Hacks 44-52
Hack44.Detect Timing with Your Ears
Hack45.Detect Sound Direction
Hack46.Discover Pitch
Hack47.Keep Your Balance
Hack48.Detect Sounds on the Margins of Certainty
Hack49.Speech Is Broadband Input to Your Head
Hack50.Give Big-Sounding Words to Big Concepts
Hack51.Stop Memory-Buffer Overrun While Reading
Hack52.Robust Processing Using Parallelism
Chapter 5. Integrating
Section 5.1. Hacks 53-61
Hack53.Put Timing Information into Sound and Location Information into Light
Hack54.Don t Divide Attention Across Locations
Hack55.Confuse Color Identification with Mixed Signals
Hack56.Don t Go There
Hack57.Combine Modalities to Increase Intensity
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