Mindwandering
How it Can Improve Your Mood and Boost Your Creativity
1st Edition
Published on 8. February 2022
272 pages
978-1-4088-8804-9 (ISBN)
Description
'An original, provocative and fascinating new theory by one of the world's leading neuroscientists about why the mind wanders - and when and why it's good for you' Daniel Gilbert
Your brain is noisy. Certain regions are always grinding away at involuntary activities like daydreaming and intrusive thoughts - taking up to forty-seven percent of your waking time. This is mindwandering.
Mindwandering is the first popular book to explore the phenomenon of our wandering minds and the cutting-edge new research behind it. Cognitive neuroscientist Moshe Bar combines his decades of research to explain the benefits and the possible cost of mindwandering within the broader context of psychology, neuroscience, psychiatry and philosophy. He provides you with practical knowledge that can help strengthen your relationships with others, increase your concentration at work and reduce your anxiety.
'Bar's revelatory, pioneering studies are finally available for everyone to enjoy, so we can optimally direct our states of mind to better align with the moment' David Eagleman, New York Times-bestselling author of Incognito and Livewired
'Highlights the role of mindwandering in solving problems, inducing happiness and in teaching us to bring the right mind to the right time' Dr Nancy Etcoff, psychologist at Harvard Medical School
'A gentle and humane book that should be read by everyone interested in the human mind and the human brain' Andy Clark, Professor of Cognitive Philosophy, University of Sussex
Your brain is noisy. Certain regions are always grinding away at involuntary activities like daydreaming and intrusive thoughts - taking up to forty-seven percent of your waking time. This is mindwandering.
Mindwandering is the first popular book to explore the phenomenon of our wandering minds and the cutting-edge new research behind it. Cognitive neuroscientist Moshe Bar combines his decades of research to explain the benefits and the possible cost of mindwandering within the broader context of psychology, neuroscience, psychiatry and philosophy. He provides you with practical knowledge that can help strengthen your relationships with others, increase your concentration at work and reduce your anxiety.
'Bar's revelatory, pioneering studies are finally available for everyone to enjoy, so we can optimally direct our states of mind to better align with the moment' David Eagleman, New York Times-bestselling author of Incognito and Livewired
'Highlights the role of mindwandering in solving problems, inducing happiness and in teaching us to bring the right mind to the right time' Dr Nancy Etcoff, psychologist at Harvard Medical School
'A gentle and humane book that should be read by everyone interested in the human mind and the human brain' Andy Clark, Professor of Cognitive Philosophy, University of Sussex
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-8804-9 (9781408888049)
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Moshe Bar is the former Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital and an internationally renowned cognitive neuroscientist, whose novel research has made revolutionary contributions to our understanding of perception, cognition and issues in psychiatry. He has a PhD in cognitive neuroscience from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. For his outstanding research and academic achievements, he has received many awards and honors, including the prestigious 21st Century Science Initiative Award from the McDonnell Foundation, and the Hebb Award from The International Neural Networks Society. After seventeen years in the US, where he served as an associate professor at Harvard University, he returned to Israel to head the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at Bar-Ilan University.
Content
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: States of Mind
- Chapter 1. Always "On"
- Chapter 2. Connecting with Our Thoughts
- Chapter 3. The Journey from Now
- Chapter 4. What Do We Wander About? Our Self First
- Chapter 5. This Way Something Potentially Wicked Comes
- Chapter 6. Future Memories: Learning from Imagined Experiences
- Chapter 7. The Loss of Novelty
- Chapter 8. Templates of Mind and the Limits of Boundaries
- Chapter 9. Breadth of Thought, Creativity, and Mood
- Chapter 10. Meditation, the Default Brain, and the Quality of Our Experience
- Chapter 11. Immersed Living
- Chapter 12. An Optimal Mind for the Occasion
- In Sum: Five Points to Keep in Mind
- Appendix: From the Lab to Everyday Life
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
