Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain

From the author of How Emotions Are Made, a myth-busting primer on the brain in the tradition of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.

About the author

Lisa Feldman Barrett, Ph.D., is a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, with appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Psychiatry and Radiology. She is the author of How Emotions Are Made and received a NIH Director's Pioneer Award for her research on emotion in the brain. She lives in Boston.

Summary

From the author of How Emotions Are Made, a myth-busting primer on the brain in the tradition of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.

Foreword

From the author of How Emotions Are Made, a myth-busting primer on the brain in the tradition of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.

Additional text

A smart and delightfully breezy look at the things most of us think we know about the brain, but don't.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Feldman Barrett, Lisa Feldman Barrett
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.10.2021
• EAN: 9781529018646
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-1864-6
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 12 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Perception, popular science, Emotions, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Cognitive and behavioural neuroscience, Cognitive Science