《The Wandering Mind》是Auckland University Press出版的圖書，作者是Michael C. Corballis
基本介紹
- ISBN：9781869408114
- 作者：Michael C. Corballis
- 出版社：Auckland University Press
- 出版時間：2014年5月19日
- 頁數：184
- 定價：GBP 29.50
- 裝幀：Paperback
內容簡介
The brain is never inactive, the mind never still. For at least half of our lives, our minds are wandering away from the chores of life - the homework, the tax return, the board meeting, the meal to be cooked, even driving the car ...In this book, I wander through the various hills and valleys of mind-wandering, with the hope of giving it a better name. While psychologists writ...(展開全部) The brain is never inactive, the mind never still. For at least half of our lives, our minds are wandering away from the chores of life - the homework, the tax return, the board meeting, the meal to be cooked, even driving the car ...In this book, I wander through the various hills and valleys of mind-wandering, with the hope of giving it a better name. While psychologists write bestsellers about humans' smarter side - language, cognition, consciousness - and self-help gurus harangue us to be attentive and mindful, we all know that much of the time our minds are just goofing off. So what does the brain do when you're not looking? Rooted in neuroscience, psychology and evolutionary biology but written with Corballis's signature wit and wisdom, The Wandering Mind takes us into the world of the 'default-mode network' to tackle the big questions. What do rats dream about? What's with our fiction addiction? Is the hippocampus where free will takes a holiday? And does mind-wandering drive creativity? In Pieces of Mind, Michael Corballis took 21 short walks around the human brain. In The Wandering Mind he stretches out for a longer hike into those murky regions of the brain where dreams and religion, fiction and fantasy lurk. 麥可•C.科爾巴里斯（Michael C. Corballis） 1936年生於紐西蘭，在加拿大麥吉爾大學（McGill University）取得心理學博士學位後留校任教，後又回到紐西蘭奧克蘭大學任教，現為該校的心理學名譽教授，研究興趣為認知神經科學及語言的進化。 他不僅是優秀的心理學家，還是傑出的科學傳播者，《科學美國人》與《紐約時報》書評曾稱讚其著作兼具“知識與趣味”、有其“獨特的魅力”。 著有：《心智循環：人類語言、想法與文明的起源》（普林斯頓大學出版社，2011）《心靈之旅：窺見大腦運作的21次科學漫步》（木馬文化，2015）。
