Mind Hacks. Tips and Tools for Using Your Brain

ISBN: 596007795
EAN: N/A

Year: 2004
Pages: 159

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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
Hack58.Watch Yourself to Feel More
Hack59.Hear with Your Eyes: The McGurk Effect
Hack60.Pay Attention to Thrown Voices
Hack61.Talk to Yourself
Chapter 6. Moving
Section 6.1. Hacks 62-69
Hack62.The Broken Escalator Phenomenon: When Autopilot Takes Over
Hack63.Keep Hold of Yourself
Hack64.Mold Your Body Schema
Hack65.Why Can t You Tickle Yourself?
Hack66.Trick Half Your Mind
Hack67.Objects Ask to Be Used
Hack68.Test Your Handedness
Hack69.Use Your Right Brainand Your Left, Too
Chapter 7. Reasoning
Section 7.1. Hacks 70-74
Hack70.Use Numbers Carefully
Hack71.Think About Frequencies Rather than Probabilities
Hack72.Detect Cheaters
Hack73.Fool Others into Feeling Better
Hack74.Maintain the Status Quo
Chapter 8. Togetherness
Section 8.1. Hacks 75-80
Hack75.Grasp the Gestalt
Hack76.To Be Noticed, Synchronize in Time
Hack77.See a Person in Moving Lights
Hack78.Make Things Come Alive
Hack79.Make Events Understandable as Cause and Effect
Hack80.Act Without Knowing It
Chapter 9. Remembering
Section 9.1. Hacks 81-92
Hack81.Bring Stuff to the Front of Your Mind
Hack82.Subliminal Messages Are Weak and Simple
Hack83.Fake Familiarity
Hack84.Keep Your Sources Straight (if You Can)
Hack85.Create False Memories
Hack86.Change Context to Build Robust Memories
Hack87.Boost Memory Using Context
Hack88.Think Yourself Strong
Hack89.Navigate Your Way Through Memory
Hack90.Have an Out-of-Body Experience
Hack91.Enter the Twilight Zone: The Hypnagogic State
Hack92.Make the Caffeine Habit Taste Good
Chapter 10. Other People
Section 10.1. Hacks 93-100
Hack93.Understand What Makes Faces Special
Hack94.Signal Emotion
Hack95.Make Yourself Happy
Hack96.Reminisce Hot and Cold
Hack97.Look Where I m Looking
Hack98.Monkey See, Monkey Do
Hack99.Spread a Bad Mood Around
Hack100.You Are What You Think
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