Making up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World

Chris Frith

Wiley, May 29, 2007 - Psychology - 248 pages

Written by one of the world’s leading neuroscientists, Making Up the Mind is the first accessible account of experimental studies showing how the brain creates our mental world.

• Uses evidence from brain imaging, psychological experiments and studies of patients to explore the relationship between the mind and the brain
  
• Demonstrates that our knowledge of both the mental and physical comes to us through models created by our brain
  
• Shows how the brain makes communication of ideas from one mind to another possible

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User Review  - Niecierpek - LibraryThing

Frith examines the current evidence of how our brain generates our mental image of ourselves and the world. He first explores how our brain creates an image of ourselves and the world that can have ...

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We’re no slaves to our senses
Free will and agency are not merely the creation of nerve endings in the human brain. So while neuroscience can tell us a lot, it does not hold the key to understanding human uniqueness...
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About the author

Chris Frith is Professor in Neuropsychology at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London. His publications include Schizophrenia: A Very Short Introduction (2003, with Eve C. Johnstone) and The Neuroscience of Social Interaction (2004, edited with Daniel Wolpert).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Making up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World
• Author: Chris Frith
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Wiley, 2007
• ISBN: 1405136944, 9781405136945
• Length: 248 pages
• Subjects: Psychology / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition; Psychology / General