NeuroLogic · The Brain's Hidden Rationale Behind Our Irrational Behavior by Sternberg, Eliezer J. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Other Titles Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph Contents Introduction: Our Unconscious Logic 1. What Do the Blind See When They Dream?: On Perception, Dreams, and the Creation of the External World

Filling in the Gaps The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of Down the Rabbit Hole A Vision for the Sightless Luke Skywalker Lives in Your Temporal Lobe A Corridor of Sound The Dream Machine

Zombies Among Us Vision Without Seeing Mice in a Plus-Maze Focusing by Being Unfocused How to Identify a Fake Smile Why We Forget to Pick Up a Gallon of Milk Why Do We Eat When We’re Not Hungry? Executive Dysfunction Murder on Autopilot Two Systems for Multitasking

The Internal Simulator Flexing Mental Muscle PETTLEP Insights from Stroke How Do You Scratch a Phantom Itch? Neuronal Mirrors Why Is Yawning Contagious? Empathy, Pornography, and the Autism Spectrum Gut Feelings

A Web of Snapshots The Brains of Rival Sports Fans Why Do We Remember Where We Were on 9/11? Brains in Midtown and Downtown Ignorance Is Bliss “It’s Not a Lie If You Believe It” Fairy Tales in the Confabulating Brain

“I Was Abducted by Aliens!” Sleep Paralysis Afraid of Your Shadow? Conversations with God The Walking Dead Cheating on Your Wife—with Your Wife? Visions from the Brink Fighter Pilots and Heart Attack Victims Hostage Hallucinations Attack of the “Old Hag”

Whispers from the Microphone “He Can’t Speak If I Interrupt Him” “Someone Else Is Speaking Whenever I Speak” How Are People Similar to Electric Fish? System Failure Can the Deaf Hear Voices in Their Heads? A Disorder of Self-Monitoring Why Can’t You Tickle Yourself? Déjà Vu

You Are Getting Very Sleepy The Cocktail Party Effect Overcoming the Stroop Effect Eat Popcorn, Drink Coca-Cola Invisible Faces Brand Names in the Brain When the Brain Makes Excuses “The Knife Went In” One Brain, Two Systems

Finding One Self A Brain Divided See No Evil The Fragmentation of the Mind The Hypnotist Within An Eye for an I NeuroLogic

Appendix: Maps of the Brain Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index Illustration Credits About the Author