Competition: A Mind of its Own
3 Oct 2014 by hhjtbcqmcq.d hhjtbcqmcq.d
I’ve never mastered reverse parallel parking, am constantly forgetting names and the simplest maths problem stumps me – chances are I’m not in control of my brain, and neither are you suggests Cordelia Fine in A Mind of its Own. She says your brain is vainglorious, pigheaded, emotional, secretive and even a bigot – definitely not someone you’d invite to a part if it were a person. Much of what we think we know is not quite what it seems, she says thanks to our brain, which seems to have a mind of its own. Fine takes us on a tour of the less wholesome side of human psychology examining the latest research and looking at real-life examples of the brain behaving badly, revealing everything you ever wanted to know about the brain – and lots you probably didn’t! A Mind of its Own by Cordelia Fine, Icon Books, £7.99. To be in with a chance of winning a copy of A Mind of its Own, email your name, address organisation/institution to phil.prime@laboratorynews.co.uk by 31st October 2014.
