TY - BOOK ID - 142364512 TI - The mind is flat : the remarkable shallowness of the improvising brain PY - 2019 SN - 0300248539 9780300248531 PB - New Haven : Yale University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Cognition. KW - Comportement humain. KW - Human behavior. KW - Neurosciences. KW - cognition. KW - human behavior. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:142364512 AB - "Psychologists and neuroscientists struggle with how best to interpret human motivation and decision making. The assumption is that below a mental "surface" of conscious awareness lies a deep and complex set of inner beliefs, values, and desires that govern our thoughts, ideas, and actions, and that to know this depth is to know ourselves. In this profoundly original book, behavioral scientist Nick Chater contends just the opposite: rather than being the plaything of unconscious currents, the brain generates behaviors in the moment based entirely on our past experiences. Engaging the reader with eye-opening experiments and visual examples, the author first demolishes our intuitive sense of how our mind works, then argues for a positive interpretation of the brain as a ceaseless and creative improviser"--Jacket ER -