Top Brain, Bottom Brain
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Top Brain, Bottom Brain

Surprising Insights into How You Think

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Top Brain, Bottom Brain

Surprising Insights into How You Think

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One of the world's leading neuroscientists teams up with an accomplished writer to debunk the popular left-brain/right-brain theory and offer an exciting new way of thinking about our minds. For the past fifty years, popular culture has led us to believe in the left-brain vs. right-brain theory of personality types. Right-brain people, we've been told, are artistic, intuitive, and thoughtful, while left-brain people tend to be more analytical, logical, and objective.It would be an illuminating theory if it did not have one major drawback: It is simply not supported by science. Dr. Stephen M. Kosslyn, who Steven Pinker calls "one of the world's great cognitive neuroscientists, " explains with cowriter G. Wayne Miller an exciting new theory of the brain.Presenting extensive research in an inviting and accessible way, Kosslyn and Miller describe how the human brain uses patterns of thought that can be identified and understood through four modes of thinking: Mover, Perceiver, Stimulator, and Adaptor.Once you've identified your usual mode of thought, the practical applications are limitless, from how you work with others when you conduct business, to your personal relationships, to your voyage of self-discovery.The second edition of Top Brain, Bottom Brain includes expanded practical applications and highlights how readers can harness the theory to succeed in their own lives.

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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Year
2013
ISBN
9781451645125
Topic
Psychology
Subtopic
Cognitive Neuroscience & Neuropsychology
Index
Psychology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. 1. A New Way of Looking at What Your Brain Says About You
  4. 2. Family, Friends, Colleagues
  5. 3. Mover Mode
  6. 4. Perceiver Mode
  7. 5. Stimulator Mode
  8. 6. Adaptor Mode
  9. 7. Choosing to Change
  10. 8. An Aspect of Personality
  11. 9. Roots of the Theory
  12. 10. Sweeping Claims: Left and Right?
  13. 11. The Science of the Duplex Brain
  14. Afterword: Living with the Modes
  15. Authors’ Note
  16. About the Authors
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index
  20. Copyright