TY - BOOK ID - 78635590 TI - The wandering mind : what the brain does when you're not looking PY - 2015 SN - 9780226238616 022623861X 9780226418919 022641891X 9780226238753 PB - Chicago The University of Chicago Press DB - UniCat KW - Brain KW - Cognition KW - Absent-mindedness KW - Thought and thinking KW - Attention KW - Memory KW - Awareness KW - #SBIB:316.23H1 KW - #SBIB:15G KW - Situation Awareness KW - Situational Awareness KW - Awareness, Situation KW - Awareness, Situational KW - Awarenesses KW - Awarenesses, Situation KW - Awarenesses, Situational KW - Situation Awarenesses KW - Situational Awarenesses KW - Executive Function KW - Cognitive Function KW - Cognitions KW - Cognitive Functions KW - Function, Cognitive KW - Functions, Cognitive KW - Focus of Attention KW - Social Attention KW - Attention Focus KW - Attention, Social KW - Attentions, Social KW - Mind KW - Thinking KW - Thoughts KW - Educational psychology KW - Philosophy KW - Psychology KW - Intellect KW - Logic KW - Perception KW - Psycholinguistics KW - Self KW - Absentmindedness KW - Cerebrum KW - Central nervous system KW - Head KW - physiology KW - Kennissociologie KW - Psychologie KW - Affective and dynamic functions KW - Cognitive psychology KW - Physiology of nerves and sense organs UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78635590 AB - "The point of this piece of writing is to get you to pick up this book. But what if it takes us a few sentences to explain? What if we need to go into some detail? Are you even going to be paying attention by that point, or will your mind already have wandered off somewhere, not caring a whit about the book you're holding in your hand? It's pretty likely. In fact, some studies suggest that we spend as much as fifty percent of our waking life failing to focus on the task at hand. But does that represent a problem? Michael C. Corballis doesn't think so, and with The Wandering Mind, he shows us why, rehabilitating woolgathering and revealing its incredibly useful effects. Drawing on the latest research from cognitive science and evolutionary biology, Corballis shows us how mind-wandering not only frees us from moment-to-moment drudgery, but also from the limitations of our immediate selves. Mind-wandering strengthens our imagination, fueling the flights of invention, storytelling, and empathy that underlie our shared humanity; furthermore, he explains, our tendency to wander back and forth through the timeline of our lives is fundamental to our very sense of ourselves as coherent, continuing personalities. Full of unusual examples and surprising discoveries, [this book] mounts a vigorous defense of inattention--even as it never fails to hold the reader's."--Front jacket flap. ER -