Smarter : the new science of building brain power /
With vivid stories of lives transformed, science journalist Dan Hurley delivers practical findings for people of every age and ability. Along the way, he narrates with acid-tongued wit his experiences as a human guinea pig, road-testing commercial brain-training programs, learning to play the Renais...
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New York :
Hudson Street Press,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Expading the mind's workspace: the pioneers who overturned a century of dogma
- Measure of a man: testing my brain before I train
- A good brain trainer is hard to find: a skeptic's guide to what does (and does not) work
- Old-school brain training: training methods of the ancients
- Smart pills and thinking caps: the promise and peril of sci-fi methods
- Boot camp for my brain: setting up my training regimen
- Are you smarter than a mouse?: the biological and evolutionary basis of human intelligence
- Defenders of the faith: meetings with the arch-skeptic
- Flowers for Ts65Dn: the search for a drug for Down syndrome
- Clash of the titans: a tale of five scientific meetings
- Final exam: my post-training results.