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The brain is a fearsomely complex information-processing environment--one that often eludes our ability to understand it. At any given time, the brain is collecting, filtering, and analyzing information and, in response, performing countless intricate processes, some of which are automatic, some voluntary, some conscious, and some unconscious. Cognitive neuroscience is one of the ways we have to understand the workings of our minds. It's the study of the brain biology behind our mental functions: a collection of methods--like brain scanning and computational modeling--combined with a way of looking at psychological phenomena and discovering where, why, and how the brain makes them happen. Want to know more? Mind Hacks is a collection of probes into the moment-by-moment works of the brain. Using cognitive neuroscience, these experiments, tricks, and tips related to vision, motor skills, attention, cognition, subliminal perception, and more throw light on how the human brain works. Each hack examines specific operations of the brain. By seeing how the brain responds, we pick up clues about the architecture and design of the brain, learning a little bit more about how the brain is put together. Mind Hacks begins your exploration of the mind with a look inside the brain itself, using hacks such as "Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: Turn On and Off Bits of the Brain" and "Tour the Cortex and the Four Lobes." Also among the 100 hacks in this book, you'll find: Release Eye Fixations for Faster Reactions See Movement When All is Still Feel the Presence and Loss of Attention Detect Sounds on the Margins of Certainty Mold Your Body Schema Test Your Handedness See a Person in Moving Lights Make Events Understandable as Cause-and-Effect Boost Memory by Using Context Understand Detail and the Limits of Attention Steven Johnson, author of "Mind Wide Open" writes in his foreword to the book, "These hacks amaze because they reveal the brain's hidden logic; they shed light on the cheats and shortcuts and latent assumptions our brains make about the world." If you want to know more about what's going on in your head, then Mind Hacks is the key--let yourself play with the interface between you and the world.

• Forewordp. xi
• Creditsp. xiii
• Prefacep. xix
• Inside the Brainp. 1
• Find Out How the Brain Works Without Looking Insidep. 2
• Electroencephalogram: Getting the Big Picture with EEGsp. 5
• Positron Emission Tomography: Measuring Activity Indirectly with PETp. 6
• Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: The State of the Artp. 7
• Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: Turn On and Off Bits of the Brainp. 8
• Neuropsychology, the 10% Myth, and Why You Use All of Your Brainp. 9
• Get Acquainted with the Central Nervous Systemp. 13
• Tour the Cortex and the Four Lobesp. 16
• The Neuronp. 19
• Detect the Effect of Cognitive Function on Cerebral Blood Flowp. 22
• Why People Don't Work Like Elevator Buttonsp. 24
• Build Your Own Sensory Homunculusp. 27
• Seeingp. 32
• Understand Visual Processingp. 32
• See the Limits of Your Visionp. 38
• To See, Actp. 42
• Map Your Blind Spotp. 46
• Glimpse the Gaps in Your Visionp. 50
• When Time Stands Stillp. 52
• Release Eye Fixations for Faster Reactionsp. 55
• Fool Yourself into Seeing 3Dp. 57
• Objects Move, Lighting Shouldn'tp. 62
• Depth Mattersp. 66
• See How Brightness Differs from Luminance: The Checker Shadow Illusionp. 72
• Create Illusionary Depth with Sunglassesp. 76
• See Movement When All Is Stillp. 80
• Get Adjustedp. 83
• Show Motion Without Anything Movingp. 86
• Motion Extrapolation: The "Flash-Lag Effect"p. 90
• Turn Gliding Blocks into Stepping Feetp. 93
• Understand the Rotating Snakes Illusionp. 95
• Minimize Imaginary Distancesp. 101
• Explore Your Defense Hardwarep. 106
• Neural Noise Isn't a Bug; It's a Featurep. 108
• Attentionp. 111
• Detail and the Limits of Attentionp. 112
• Count Faster with Subitizingp. 115
• Feel the Presence and Loss of Attentionp. 117
• Grab Attentionp. 123
• Don't Look Back!p. 126
• Avoid Holes in Attentionp. 129
• Blind to Changep. 134
• Make Things Invisible Simply by Concentrating (on Something Else)p. 137
• The Brain Punishes Features that Cry Wolfp. 139
• Improve Visual Attention Through Video Gamesp. 143
• Hearing and Languagep. 147
• Detect Timing with Your Earsp. 148
• Detect Sound Directionp. 150
• Discover Pitchp. 154
• Keep Your Balancep. 156
• Detect Sounds on the Margins of Certaintyp. 158
• Speech Is Broadband Input to Your Headp. 160
• Give Big-Sounding Words to Big Conceptsp. 162
• Stop Memory-Buffer Overrun While Readingp. 165
• Robust Processing Using Parallelismp. 169
• Integratingp. 173
• Put Timing Information into Sound and Location Information into Lightp. 173
• Don't Divide Attention Across Locationsp. 176
• Confuse Color Identification with Mixed Signalsp. 179
• Don't Go Therep. 182
• Combine Modalities to Increase Intensityp. 186
• Watch Yourself to Feel Morep. 188
• Hear with Your Eyes: The McGurk Effectp. 190
• Pay Attention to Thrown Voicesp. 193
• Talk to Yourselfp. 195
• Movingp. 200
• The Broken Escalator Phenomenon: When Autopilot Takes Overp. 200
• Keep Hold of Yourselfp. 203
• Mold Your Body Schemap. 207
• Why Can't You Tickle Yourself?p. 210
• Trick Half Your Mindp. 215
• Objects Ask to Be Usedp. 218
• Test Your Handednessp. 221
• Use Your Right Brain-and Your Left, Toop. 226
• Reasoningp. 231
• Use Numbers Carefullyp. 231
• Think About Frequencies Rather than Probabilitiesp. 234
• Detect Cheatersp. 239
• Fool Others into Feeling Betterp. 242
• Maintain the Status Quop. 246
• Togethernessp. 251
• Grasp the Gestaltp. 252
• To Be Noticed, Synchronize in Timep. 254
• See a Person in Moving Lightsp. 258
• Make Things Come Alivep. 262
• Make Events Understandable as Cause and Effectp. 265
• Act Without Knowing Itp. 269
• Rememberingp. 273
• Bring Stuff to the Front of Your Mindp. 274
• Subliminal Messages Are Weak and Simplep. 277
• Fake Familiarityp. 279
• Keep Your Sources Straight (if You Can)p. 283
• Create False Memoriesp. 287
• Change Context to Build Robust Memoriesp. 292
• Boost Memory Using Contextp. 295
• Think Yourself Strongp. 298
• Navigate Your Way Through Memoryp. 302
• Have an Out-of-Body Experiencep. 306
• Enter the Twilight Zone: The Hypnagogic Statep. 308
• Make the Caffeine Habit Taste Goodp. 311
• Other Peoplep. 316
• Understand What Makes Faces Specialp. 317
• Signal Emotionp. 320
• Make Yourself Happyp. 325
• Reminisce Hot and Coldp. 327
• Look Where I'm Lookingp. 331
• Monkey See, Monkey Dop. 335
• Spread a Bad Mood Aroundp. 338
• You Are What You Thinkp. 342
• Indexp. 345