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Rain Man and A Beautiful Mind, when it comes to autism and schizophrenia. In his book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Kevin Dutton • The Wisdom of Psychopaths
Place memory evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to keep track of things that didn’t move, such as fruit trees, wells, mountains, lakes. It’s not only vast but exquisitely accurate for stationary things that are important to our survival. What it’s not so good at is keeping track of things that move from place to place.
Daniel J. Levitin • The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
At first, the impact that this memory difficulty might have was unclear. Then it was found that the more people tended to retrieve memories in this non-specific way, the more difficulty they had in letting go of the past and the more affected they were by things going wrong in their lives right now and rebuilding their lives again after an upset.5
... See moreProf. Mark Williams • Mindfulness: A practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world
The DLPFC tells us how our present experience relates to the past and how it may affect the future—you
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Behavioral scientists have long asserted the existence of two ways of assessing and knowing. The most recent such assertion to gain widespread attention is Daniel Kahneman’s treatment of the distinction between System 1 and System 2 thinking. The first is fast, associative, intuitive, and often emotional, whereas the second is slower, deliberative,
... See moreRobert B. Cialdini • Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade
Envisioning or planning one’s future, projecting oneself into a situation (especially a social situation), feeling empathy, invoking autobiographical memories also involve this daydreaming or mind-wandering network. If you’ve ever stopped what you were doing to picture the consequence of some future action or to imagine yourself in a particular fut
... See moreDaniel J. Levitin • The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
if everyone remembered everything, would our differences get shaved away? What would happen to our sense of self? It seemed to me that a perfect memory couldn’t be a narrative any more than unedited security-cam footage could be a feature film.
Ted Chiang • Exhalation: Stories
In stark contrast to this misperception, neuroscientists have recently discovered that parts of the brain can fall asleep for a few moments or longer without our realizing it. At any given moment, some circuits in the brain may be off-line, slumbering,