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The Playful Brain: The Surprising Science of How Puzzles Improve Your Mind, This is your brain on puzzles...A leading neuroscientist and a noted puzzle designer team up to reveal how solving puzzles improves your brain function. It's no secret that puzzles are fun to solve. But when Dr. Richard Restak, a respected neuroscie, The Playful Brain: The Surprising Science of How Puzzles Improve Your Mind
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  • The Playful Brain: The Surprising Science of How Puzzles Improve Your Mind
  • Written by author Restak, M. D. Richard, Kim, Scott
  • Published by Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated, 12/6/2011
  • This is your brain on puzzles...A leading neuroscientist and a noted puzzle designer team up to reveal how solving puzzles improves your brain function. It's no secret that puzzles are fun to solve. But when Dr. Richard Restak, a respected neuroscie
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Introduction 1

The Art and Science of Brain Enhancement 12

Learning to Solve Puzzles 17

Memory

1 Working Memory: Brain Juggling 41

2 Long-term Memory: Imagining the Future by Remembering the Past 57

Perception

3 Perceptual Skill Learning: The Sommelier and the Hockey Player 87

4 Visual Thinking: Seeing, Not Just Looking 96

5 Spatial Thinking: The Challenge of Mental Rotation 116

6 Listening: The Foley Artist and the Cocktail Party 144

7 Motor Skill Learning: Of Mental Maps and Pickpockets 159

8 Time: Clock Time vs. Brain Time 180

Cognition

9 Thinking in Words: The Hammer, the Saw, and the Hatchet 191

10 Logic: Reasoning in Uncertain Situations 203

11 Emotions and Thinking: The Anger Superiority Effect 229

12 Mathematics: Doing the Numbers at the Checkout Line 239

13 Illusions: Shadows, Balls, and Rotating Snakes 255

14 Creativity: The Magic Matches of Carlo Reverberi 267

Conclusions 283

Acknowledgments 285

Resources 287

Index 289


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