{ Sunday, February 12, 2006 }
A nice summary of weird but normal activities of the brain, in A Theory of Fun
- The brain is good at cutting out the irrelevant, by which we mean, if you tell someone to count how many jugglers appear in a movie, they will almost surely miss the enormous purple gorilla in the background.
- The brain notices more than we think it does. When people are under hypnosis, or in some special circumstance they can remember and describe more about something that they can't under normal conditions. Although this odd fact has been much abused, as in Repressed Memory Therapy.
- The brain is actively hiding the real world from us. Raph gives the example of people drawing the simplest, most iconic or habitual symbol of something rather than the thing itself. Books like Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
LINK | 8:58 PM | TB
Yes, that's a good recommendation Penny. There must be a book out there of Jedi Mind Tricks for the Non-Jedi.
Caterina Fake | February 13, 2006 12:02 PMThere is Mind Hacks: Book and website. I like your title better though.
Blink isn't all positive about what Gladwell calls "rapid cognition". Our brains make a lot of observations that color our judgment in unreportable ways. Sometimes this spillover is good, other times bad. Apparently even highly trained musicians are apt to judge a woman's performance as "feminine", but only if they can see her.
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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is a remarkable book. People who "can draw well" are not just doing what everyone else does but doing it better - they're actually engaging in a completely different activity, which has it's own levels of skill. I keep looking for similar books for different disciplines - and the only other one I've found so far is "The Actor and the Target" by Declan Donnellan - does anyone know of any other books that redefine what's going on in the mind of someone who is "working well"?
Penny | February 13, 2006 10:15 AM