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“torkel klingberg”

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  • Why Learn?

    The Importance of Human Knowledge in the Age of AI

    by Torkel Klingberg, Asa Wikforss ...
    Translated by Kathy Saranpa ...
    Bold, accessible, and deeply timely, Why Learn? combines neuroscience, psychology, history, and philosophy to create a new understanding of why learning remains essential, even as AI grows more powerful . . .Artificial intelligence promises us a world of effortless knowledge, a utopia of not-needing-to-know because all knowledge is a keystroke away. Why Learn? confronts the question posed by this ... Read more

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  • The Overflowing Brain

    Information Overload and the Limits of Working Memory

    by Torkel Klingberg ...
    As the pace of technological change accelerates, we are increasingly experiencing a state of information overload. Statistics show that we are interrupted every three minutes during the course of the work day. Multitasking between email, cell-phone, text messages, and four or five websites while listening to an iPod forces the brain to process more and more informaton at greater and greater speeds ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

  • The Learning Brain:Memory and Brain Development in Children

    Memory and Brain Development in Children

    by Torkel Klingberg ...
    Despite all our highly publicized efforts to improve our schools, the United States is still falling behind. We recently ranked 15th in the world in reading, math, and science. Clearly, more needs to be done. In The Learning Brain, Torkel Klingberg urges us to use the insights of neuroscience to improve the education of our children. The key to improving education lies in understanding how the ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • The Overflowing Brain

    Information Overload and the Limits of Working Memory

    by Torkel Klingberg ...
    As the pace of technological change accelerates, we are increasingly experiencing a state of information overload. Statistics show that we are interrupted every three minutes during the course of the work day. Multitasking between email, cell-phone, text messages, and four or five websites while listening to an iPod forces the brain to process more and more informaton at greater and greater speeds ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

  • The Learning Brain

    Memory and Brain Development in Children

    by Torkel Klingberg ...
    Despite all our highly publicized efforts to improve our schools, the United States is still falling behind. We recently ranked 15th in the world in reading, math, and science. Clearly, more needs to be done. In The Learning Brain, Torkel Klingberg urges us to use the insights of neuroscience to improve the education of our children. The key to improving education lies in understanding how the ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

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    Thinking Across the Spectrum

    by Temple Grandin, Richard Panek ...
    In The Autistic Brain, New York Times bestselling author Temple Grandin "has reached a stunning level of sophistication about herself and the science of autism" (The New York Review of Books).Winner of a Goodreads Choice Award for Best Nonfiction BookTemple Grandin may be the most famous person with autism, a condition that affects 1 in 88 children. Since her birth in 1947, our understanding of it ... Read more

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  • Think Tank

    Forty Neuroscientists Explore the Biological Roots of Human Experience

    by David J. Linden ...
    Essays that explore quirky, counterintuitive aspects of brain function and "make us realize that what goes on in our minds is nothing short of magical" (Scientific American).Neuroscientist David J. Linden approached leading brain researchers and asked each the same question: "What idea about brain function would you most like to explain to the world?" Their responses make up this one-of-a-kind ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)

    Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions

    by Jaak Panksepp, Lucy Biven ...
    Series series Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology
    A look at the seven emotional systems of the brain by the researcher who discovered them.What makes us happy? What makes us sad? How do we come to feel a sense of enthusiasm? What fills us with lust, anger, fear, or tenderness? Traditional behavioral and cognitive neuroscience have yet to provide satisfactory answers. The Archaeology of Mind presents an affective neuroscience approach—which takes ... Read more

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  • The Emotional Brain

    The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life

    by Joseph Ledoux ...
    What happens in our brains to make us feel fear, love, hate, anger, joy? Do we control our emotions, or do they control us? Do animals have emotions? How can traumatic experiences in early childhood influence adult behavior, even though we have no conscious memory of them? In The Emotional Brain, Joseph LeDoux investigates the origins of human emotions and explains that many exist as part of ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Synaptic Self

    How Our Brains Become Who We Are

    by Joseph LeDoux ...
    In 1996 Joseph LeDoux's The Emotional Brain presented a revelatory examination of the biological bases of our emotions and memories. Now, the world-renowned expert on the brain has produced with a groundbreaking work that tells a more profound story: how the little spaces between the neurons—the brain's synapses—are the channels through which we think, act, imagine, feel, and remember. Synapses ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Brain of the Highly Sensitive Person

    Why you shouldn't judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree

    by Esther Bergsma ...
    Why do highly sensitive people perceive and process information so differently, and react more intensely? Why do they often experience stress and social rejection? Ever since the American psychologist Elaine Aron introduced the term 'high sensitivity' in the late 1990s, much has been said about the subject. In this book, Esther Bergsma presents the latest scientific insights into the functioning ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Brain-Based Therapy with Adults

    Evidence-Based Treatment for Everyday Practice

    by John B. Arden, Lloyd Linford ...
    Brain-Based Therapy with Adults: Evidence-Based Treatment for Everyday Practice provides a straightforward, integrated approach that looks at what we currently know about the brain and how it impacts and informs treatment interventions. Authors John Arden and Lloyd Linford, experts in neuroscience and evidence-based practice, reveal how this new kind of therapy takes into account the uniqueness of ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD