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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: playful brain
    sub title: the surprising science of how puzzles improve your mind
  name:
    name part: Restak, Richard M.
    name part: 1942-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Kim, Scott.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: A leading neuroscientist and a noted puzzle designer team up to reveal how solving puzzles improves one's brain function, giving readers the chance to work puzzles while learning how to boost their brain.
  table of contents: Memory. Working memory : brain juggling -- Long-term memory : imagining the future by remembering the past -- Perception. Perceptual skill learning : the sommelier and the hockey player -- Visual thinking : seeing, not just looking -- Spatial thinking : the challenge of mental rotation -- Listening : the foley artist and the cocktail party -- Motor skill learning : of mental maps and pickpockets -- Time : clock time vs. brain time -- Cognition. Thinking in words : the hammer, the saw, and the hatchet -- Logic : reasoning in uncertain situations -- Emotions and thinking : the anger superiority effect -- Mathematics : doing the numbers at the checkout line -- Illusions : shadows, balls, and rotating snakes -- Creativity : the magic matches of Carlo Reverberi.
  note: Richard Restak ; with puzzles by Scott Kim.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-288) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Cognitive neuroscience
  subject:
    topic: Puzzles
  subject:
    topic: Thought and thinking
    genre: Problems, exercises, etc
  classification: QP360.5 .R47 2010
  classification: 612.8/2
  identifier: 9781594487774
  identifier: 1594487774
  identifier: 2010024140
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 100618
    record change date: 20151202114653.0
    record identifier: in00002662917