Ways of Attending

How Our Divided Brain Constructs the World

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Everything we come to know and experience of the world depends on the way we attend to it. For reasons of survival, our brains have evolved to pay two kinds of attention to the world at the same time, though for the same reasons we cannot normally become aware of this neurological fact.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-01-31
Mått:122 x 193 x 8 mm
Vikt:45 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:32
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781781815335

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Iain McGilchrist is a former fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and former consultant psychiatrist and clinical director at the Bethlem Royal & Maudsley Hospital, London. He has been a research fellow in neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, and has published original articles and research papers in a wide range of pub-lications on topics in literature, philosophy, medicine, and psychiatry. McGilchrist is the author of 'Against Criticism' (Faber, 1982), 'The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World'(Yale, 2009), 'The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning: Why Are We So Unhappy?' (Yale, 2012), and is currently working on a project entitled 'When the Porcupine Is a Monkey', to be published by Penguin. He lives on the Isle of Skye.