Mind Hacks™ · Tips & Tools for Using Your Brain by Stafford, Tom -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Mind Hacks™: Tips & Tools for Using Your Brain Dedication Other resources from O’Reilly Foreword Credits

About the Authors Contributors Acknowledgments

Tom Matt

Preface

Why Mind Hacks? How to Use This Book

See Also

Hack #8. Tour the Cortex and the Four Lobes

Cerebral Lobes Cerebral Cortex

Hack #9. The Neuron

End Notes See Also

Hack #10. Detect the Effect of Cognitive Function on Cerebral Blood Flow

In Action How It Works End Notes

Hack #11. Why People Don’t Work Like Elevator Buttons

In Action How It Works End Note See Also

Hack #12. Build Your Own Sensory Homunculus

In Action How It Works End Note See Also

2. Seeing: Hacks 13–33

Hack #13. Understand Visual Processing

Start at the Retina Behind the Eyes Enter the Visual Cortex “What” and “Where” Processing Streams Processing with Built-in Assumptions

Hack #14. See the Limits of Your Vision

In Action How It Works End Notes See Also

Hack #15. To See, Act

In Action End Notes See Also

Hack #16. Map Your Blind Spot

In Action How It Works Hacking the Hack End Note See Also

Hack #17. Glimpse the Gaps in Your Vision

In Action How It Works End Note See Also

Hack #18. When Time Stands Still

In Action How It Works End Notes

Hack #19. Release Eye Fixations for Faster Reactions

In Action How It Works In Real Life See Also

Hack #20. Fool Yourself into Seeing 3D

In Action How It Works In Real Life End Notes

Hack #21. Objects Move, Lighting Shouldn’t

In Action How It Works End Note See Also

Hack #22. Depth Matters

Object Intensity

In action How it works In real life

Known Size

In action How it works In real life

End Notes See Also

Hack #23. See How Brightness Differs from Luminance: The Checker Shadow Illusion

In Action How It Works In Real Life End Note See Also

Hack #24. Create Illusionary Depth with Sunglasses

In Action How It Works In Real Life End Note See Also

Hack #25. See Movement When All Is Still

In Action How It Works Hacking the Hack See Also

Hack #26. Get Adjusted

In Action Why It Works In Real Life End Notes See Also

Hack #27. Show Motion Without Anything Moving

In Action How It Works In Real Life Hacking The Hack End Notes See Also

Hack #28. Motion Extrapolation: The “Flash-Lag Effect”

In Action How It Works In Real Life End Notes See Also

Hack #29. Turn Gliding Blocks into Stepping Feet

In Action How It Works End Notes See Also

Hack #30. Understand the Rotating Snakes Illusion

In Action

The autokinetic effect Ouchi illusion Peripheral drift

How It Works In Real Life End Notes

Hack #31. Minimize Imaginary Distances

In Action How It Works In Real Life End Notes

Hack #32. Explore Your Defense Hardware

In Action How It Works End Notes

Hack #33. Neural Noise Isn’t a Bug; It’s a Feature

In Action How It Works End Note See Also

3. Attention: Hacks 34–43

End Note Hack #34. Detail and the Limits of Attention

In Action How It Works In Real Life End Note

Hack #35. Count Faster with Subitizing

In Action How It Works In Real Life End Notes

Hack #36. Feel the Presence and Loss of Attention

In Action How It Works End Note

Hack #37. Grab Attention

In Action How It Works End Notes See Also

Hack #38. Don’t Look Back!

In Action How It Works In Real Life End Notes

Hack #39. Avoid Holes in Attention

In Action How It Works End Note See Also

Hack #40. Blind to Change

In Action How It Works In Real Life End Notes See Also

Hack #41. Make Things Invisible Simply by Concentrating (on Something Else)

In Action How It Works End Notes

Hack #42. The Brain Punishes Features that Cry Wolf

In Action How It Works End Notes See Also

Hack #43. Improve Visual Attention Through Video Games

Shortening the Attentional Blink Raising the Cap on Subitizing How It Works In Real Life End Notes

4. Hearing and Language: Hacks 44–52

Hack #44. Detect Timing with Your Ears

In Action How It Works

Hack #45. Detect Sound Direction

In Action How It Works In Real Life End Notes See Also

Hack #46. Discover Pitch

In Action How It Works End Notes

Hack #47. Keep Your Balance

In Action How It Works

Hack #48. Detect Sounds on the Margins of Certainty

In Action How It Works End Notes

Hack #49. Speech Is Broadband Input to Your Head

In Action How It Works See Also

Hack #50. Give Big-Sounding Words to Big Concepts

In Action How It Works In Real Life End Notes See Also

Hack #51. Stop Memory-Buffer Overrun While Reading

In Action How It Works In Real Life See Also

Hack #52. Robust Processing Using Parallelism

In Action How It Works End Note

5. Integrating: Hacks 53–61

Hack #53. Put Timing Information into Sound and Location Information into Light

In Action

Vision dominates for localization Audition dominates for timing

How It Works End Notes See Also

Hack #54. Don’t Divide Attention Across Locations

In Action How It Works In Real Life Hacking the Hack End Notes

Hack #55. Confuse Color Identification with Mixed Signals

In Action How It Works End Notes See Also

Hack #56. Don’t Go There

In Action How It Works In Real Life End Notes See Also

Hack #57. Combine Modalities to Increase Intensity

In Action How It Works End Notes

Hack #58. Watch Yourself to Feel More

In Action How It Works In Real Life End Notes

Hack #59. Hear with Your Eyes: The McGurk Effect

In Action How It Works End Notes See Also

Hack #60. Pay Attention to Thrown Voices

In Action How It Works End Note

Hack #61. Talk to Yourself

In Action How It Works End Notes

6. Moving: Hacks 62–69

Hack #62. The Broken Escalator Phenomenon: When Autopilot Takes Over

In Action How It Works In Real Life End Notes

Hack #63. Keep Hold of Yourself

In Action How It Works End Notes

Hack #64. Mold Your Body Schema

In Action How It Works End Notes See Also

Hack #65. Why Can’t You Tickle Yourself?

Tickle Predicting

In action How it works

Force Prediction

In action How it works

End Notes See Also

Hack #66. Trick Half Your Mind

In Action

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

How It Works End Notes

Hack #67. Objects Ask to Be Used

In Action How It Works End Notes

Hack #68. Test Your Handedness

In Action How It Works End Notes See Also

Hack #69. Use Your Right Brain—and Your Left, Too

In Action How It Works End Notes See Also

7. Reasoning: Hacks 70–74

Hack #70. Use Numbers Carefully

In Action How It Works In Real Life End Notes

Hack #71. Think About Frequencies Rather than Probabilities

In Action How It Works In Real Life End Notes See Also

Hack #72. Detect Cheaters

In Action How It Works End Notes

Hack #73. Fool Others into Feeling Better

In Action How It Works End Note See Also

Hack #74. Maintain the Status Quo

In Action

Version 1 Version 2

How It Works In Real Life End Notes

8. Togetherness: Hacks 75–80

Hack #75. Grasp the Gestalt

In Action How It Works End Notes See Also

Hack #76. To Be Noticed, Synchronize in Time

In Action How It Works End Notes

Hack #77. See a Person in Moving Lights

In Action How It Works In Real Life End Notes

Hack #78. Make Things Come Alive

In Action How It Works End Notes

Hack #79. Make Events Understandable as Cause and Effect

In Action How It Works End Notes See Also

Hack #80. Act Without Knowing It

In Action How It Works End Notes

9. Remembering: Hacks 81–92

Hack #81. Bring Stuff to the Front of Your Mind

In Action How It Works In Real Life End Notes

Hack #82. Subliminal Messages Are Weak and Simple

In Action In Real Life How It Works End Notes

Hack #83. Fake Familiarity

In Action How It Works In Real Life End Note See Also

Hack #84. Keep Your Sources Straight (if You Can)

In Action How It Works In Real Life End Notes

Hack #85. Create False Memories

In Action How It Works In Real Life End Notes See Also

Hack #86. Change Context to Build Robust Memories

In Action How It Works End Note See Also

Hack #87. Boost Memory Using Context

In Action How It Works End Notes

Hack #88. Think Yourself Strong

In Action How It Works Three Kinds of Motor Control In Real Life End Notes

Hack #89. Navigate Your Way Through Memory

In Action How It Works In Real Life End Notes

Hack #90. Have an Out-of-Body Experience

In Action How It Works End Notes

Hack #91. Enter the Twilight Zone: The Hypnagogic State

In Action How It Works In Real Life End Notes See Also

Hack #92. Make the Caffeine Habit Taste Good

In Action How It Works End Notes

Fake Familiarity word game part 2

10. Other People: Hacks 93–100

Hack #93. Understand What Makes Faces Special

In Action How It Works In Real Life End Notes

Hack #94. Signal Emotion

In Action How It Works In Real Life End Notes See Also

Hack #95. Make Yourself Happy

In Action How It Works

Mimicry Resulting emotion

In Real Life See Also

Hack #96. Reminisce Hot and Cold

In Action

Tale 1 Tale 2

How It Works In Real Life End Notes See Also

Hack #97. Look Where I’m Looking

In Action How It Works In Real Life End Notes

Hack #98. Monkey See, Monkey Do

In Action How It Works In Real Life End Notes

Hack #99. Spread a Bad Mood Around

In Action How It Works In Real Life End Notes

Hack #100. You Are What You Think

In Action How It Works End Notes

Index About the Authors Colophon Copyright

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