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Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life
by Sandra Aamodt, Sam Wang
from Bloomsbury USA

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Fairly Bland
  "Welcome to Your Brain" is a fairly bland skimpy overview that, while offering minor insights here and there (eg. "We use only 10% of our brains" is a myth. There is no evidence that playing classical music for babies makes them more intelligent.), but dodges major controversies (eg. Race vs. Intelligence, sex differences) and even ignores some key points - eg. importance of chemical levels to proper brain functioning. The result is a pedantic slog through too many pages.

• Welcome to Your Brain
  This book is FANTASTIC! A great read! Stimulating! If you use your brain on a daily basis, buy this book!

• Welcome to your brain
  You must read this book if you want to know more about your brain. It really gives you information about your everyday life.

• Very Entertaining!
  Who would have guessed that two neuroscientists could write such an entertaining book about brain function? I knew I was going to enjoy this book when I got to page 10 and, in a discussion of which movies portray brain disorders accurately and which don't, I read: "Another offender is the movie 50 First Dates (2004), which portrays a pattern of memory loss that never occurs in any known neurological condition. Drew Barrymore plays a character who collects new memories each day and then discards them all... more info

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