Daniel J. Levitin

Explores the relationship between the mind and music by drawing on recent findings in the fields of neuroscience and evolutionary psychology to discuss topics such as the sources of musical tastes and the brain's responses to music.

The Science of a Human Obsession

This is Your Brain on Music

Music As Medicine

I Heard There Was a Secret Chord

How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature

The World in Six Songs

Enquanto notícias, textos, contas e aplicativos invadem nosso cotidiano, espera-se que tomemos rapidamente decisões cada vez maiores. Em capítulos instigantes sobre temas que vão desde a gaveta bagunçada da cozinha até cuidados com a saúde, David Levitin apresenta avanços recentes nos estudos sobre o cérebro e mostra métodos que podemos aplicar no dia a dia para adquirir uma sensação de controle sobre a maneira como organizamos nossos lares, nossos ambientes de trabalho e nossas vidas.

A mente organizada

O autor e neurocientista Daniel J. Levitin aborda o problema do excesso de informação no século XXI em seu novo best-seller do New York Times. Poderia a boa e velha organização ser o segredo fundamental para se navegar no mar de informações do mundo moderno? Enquanto notícias, textos, contas e aplicativos invadem nosso cotidiano, espera-se que tomemos rapidamente decisões cada vez maiores. Em capítulos instigantes sobre temas que vão desde a gaveta bagunçada da cozinha até cuidados com a saúde, David Levitin apresenta avanços recentes nos estudos sobre o cérebro e mostra métodos que podemos aplicar no dia a dia para adquirir uma sensação de controle sobre a maneira como organizamos nossos lares, nossos ambientes de trabalho e nossas vidas.

Como pensar com clareza na era da sobrecarga de informação

Twenty-first century society is drowning in information, and the highest achievers are the most at risk . . . Every day we are bombarded with new facts, figures, stories, theories and demands on our attention. We expect our brains to process ever higher volumes of data but all this information comes at a cost. Relentless external pressure leads to information overload- absent mindedness, poor decision-making, lowered efficiency and even a suppressed capacity for creative thought. Understanding this pitfall is ever more crucial to surviving and thriving in the digital age. In The Organized Mind, neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin investigates and explains exactly how we got here, from the early building blocks of language to why email is so addictive. There is an alternative to wrestling with all this information- Levitin demonstrates how to ease your mental burden by storing information in the physical world instead. Case studies and worked examples cover smarter decision-making, improving memory and attention, identifying what information is and is not important, and organizing your time, your space and your relationships successfully. By analysing how your brain works, The Organized Mindwill help you function better, go further, and find more time to do the things you really want to do.

Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

The Organised Mind

La música, como el lenguaje, forma parte de lo más profundo de la naturaleza humana. Escuches a Bach o a Bono, la música tiene un papel muy significativo en tu vida. ¿Por qué la música despierta distintos estados de ánimo? Levitin se sirve de la neurociencia más avanzada y de la más rigurosa psicología evolutiva para ofrecernos respuestas. Recurriendo a las últimas investigaciones y con ejemplos de piezas musicales que van desde Mozart hasta Van Halen, pasando por Duke Elington, Levitin desvela multitud de misterios. ¿Tenemos un límite para adquirir nuevos gustos musicales? ¿Qué revelan los escáneres sobre las respuestas del cerebro a la música? ¿Nuestras preferencias musicales se determinan en el útero?

El estudio científico de una obsesión humana

Tu cerebro y la música

The Organized Mind / The Power of Habit / Thinking Fast and Slow

Bir Saplantinin Bilimsel Incelemesi

Müzigin Etkisindeki Beyin

From The New York Times bestselling author of THE ORGANIZED MIND and THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON MUSIC, a primer to the critical thinking that is more necessary now than ever. We are bombarded with more information each day than our brains can process—especially in election season. It's raining bad data, half-truths, and even outright lies. New York Times bestselling author Daniel J. Levitin shows how to recognize misleading announcements, statistics, graphs, and written reports revealing the ways lying weasels can use them. It's becoming harder to separate the wheat from the digital chaff. How do we distinguish misinformation, pseudo-facts, distortions, and outright lies from reliable information? Levitin groups his field guide into two categories—statistical infomation and faulty arguments—ultimately showing how science is the bedrock of critical thinking. Infoliteracy means understanding that there are hierarchies of source quality and bias that variously distort our information feeds via every media channel, including social media. We may expect newspapers, bloggers, the government, and Wikipedia to be factually and logically correct, but they so often aren't. We need to think critically about the words and numbers we encounter if we want to be successful at work, at play, and in making the most of our lives. This means checking the plausibility and reasoning—not passively accepting information, repeating it, and making decisions based on it. Readers learn to avoid the extremes of passive gullibility and cynical rejection. Levitin's charming, entertaining, accessible guide can help anyone wake up to a whole lot of things that aren't so. And catch some lying weasels in their tracks!

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