Cutting edge brain research on letting your mind wander—and when and why it's good for you.
Moshe Bar is the former Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital and an internationally renowned cognitive neuroscientist, whose novel research has made revolutionary contributions to our understanding of perception, cognition and issues in psychiatry. He has a PhD in cognitive neuroscience from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. For his outstanding research and academic achievements, he has received many awards and honors, including the prestigious 21st Century Science Initiative Award from the McDonnell Foundation, and the Hebb Award from The International Neural Networks Society. After seventeen years in the US, where he served as an associate professor at Harvard University, he returned to Israel to head the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at Bar-Ilan University.
An original, provocative, and fascinating new theory by one of the
world’s leading neuroscientists about why the mind wanders – and
how we can change its trajectory to make ourselves happier and more
creative
*Daniel Gilbert, Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and
bestselling author of STUMBLING ON HAPPINESS*
Brains constantly balance the two states of tracing known paths and
setting off on new adventures. Bar's revelatory, pioneering studies
on this are finally available for everyone to enjoy, so we can
optimally direct our states of mind to better align with the
moment. A fascinating read that will bring your mind back home
*David Eagleman, New York Times bestselling author of INCOGNITO and
LIVEWIRED*
Mindwandering is the best thing that can happen to anyone. What is
it? Why is it good? Let Moshe Bar take you by the hand and show you
the exciting ways it liberates us from the tedium of the known
world into the world of possibilities’
*Michael S. Gazzaniga, Professor of Psychology at the University of
California, Santa Barbara, and author of THE CONSCIOUSNESS
INSTINCT*
Highly accessible and entertaining, alternately personal and
analytic, this lovely and stimulating book will make you appreciate
your mind, and Bar’s
*Susanna Siegel, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Harvard
University*
In this highly original, accessible, erudite, engaging and
informative book, a distinguished neuroscientist highlights the
role of mindwandering in solving problems, inducing happiness, and
in teaching us to "bring the right mind to the right time"
*Nancy Etcoff, psychologist at Harvard University and author of
SURVIVAL OF THE PRETTIEST*
Mindwandering evinces the intimate relationship between curiosity
and creativity, mindwandering and mindfulness, agency and
association, sentience and selfhood. It does so using a compelling
mixture of personal narratives and high-end cognitive (and
clinical) neuroscience . . . An addictive and eclectic read,
crafted with a gentle and telling humour
*Karl J. Friston, Scientific Director at the Wellcome Centre for
Human Neuroimaging and Professor at University College London*
In this important, entertaining and instructive treatment, Moshe
Bar takes us on a journey through contemporary neuroscience to show
when, why, and exactly how a wandering mind can be good for us.
Along the way, we learn why we should meditate, how to profit from
imagined experiences and how we can make the most of our limited
mental resources. A gentle and humane book that should be read by
everyone interested in the human mind and the human brain
*Andy Clark, Professor of Cognitive Philosophy, University of
Sussex, and author of SURFING UNCERTAINTY*
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