Mind Hacks: Tips & Tricks for Using Your Brain

Tom Stafford and Matt Webb's book Mind Hacks: Tips and Tricks for Using Your Brain uses cognitive neuroscience to five experiments, tricks, and tips linked to various elements of the brain. The book was released in November 2004 by O'Reilly as part of the O'Reilly Hacks series. Since then, it has been translated into six different languages.

The brain is a terrifyingly sophisticated information-processing environment that frequently eludes our comprehension. The brain is constantly collecting, filtering, and analyzing information, and in response, it performs a plethora of complex processes, some of which are automatic, some voluntary, some conscious, and some unconscious. One of the methods we have to comprehend the inner workings of our thoughts is cognitive neuroscience. It's a collection of methods—such as brain scanning and computational modeling—combined with a way of looking at psychological phenomena and figuring out where, why, and how the brain causes them to happen.

Mind Hacks is a collection of investigations into the brain's workings in real time. These studies, tactics, and tips on vision, motor skills, attention, cognition, subliminal perception, and more use cognitive neuroscience to shed light on how the human brain functions. Each hack focuses on a different aspect of the brain. Mind Hacks starts your journey into the mind with hacks like "Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: Turn On and Off Bits of the Brain" and "Tour the Cortex and the Four Lobes," which take you inside the brain itself.

If you want to learn more about what's going on inside your head, Mind Hacks is the place to go—let yourself experiment with the interface between you and the rest of the world.

Author:Tom Stafford, Matt Webb

Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Hacks-Tools-Using-Brain/dp/0596007795