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Teasing 10 threads from DeanBurnett’s…

Thread 1:

Memory is egotistical. It tweaks and adjusts the information it stores to make you look better, like a doting mother pointing out how wonderful her little Timmy is.(pg. 1)

Thread 2:

In the world of brain sciences, our under- standing changes all the time. For every claim in this book you’ll probably be able to find some new study that argues against it. (pg. 2)

Thread 3:

The brain interferes with almost every food-based decision. The first bite is with the eye. As much as 65% of our brain is associated with vision rather than taste.(pg. 15 )

Thread 4:

Miller’s Law suggested that our magic memory number was for seven items, plus or minus two. Recent research data shows the number is more like four items.

(pg. 37 )

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Thread 5:

There’s increasing evidence that shows that nearly everything we experience is stored in long term memory in some form.

(pg. 41 )

Thread 6:

The brain’s tendency to worry can actually cause us harm.

(pg. 76 )

Thread 7:

Placing a prisoner in solitary confinement is considered a form of psychological torture, demonstrating that human contact is more a necessity than it is a desire.

(pg. 222)

Thread 8:

Impression management is where we try to control the impressions people have of us via social behaviors. Our brain cares what others think of us and will go to great lengths to make them like us.(pg. 237)

Thread 9:

“Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.”

(pg. 124)

Thread 10:

Romantic relationship breakups activate the same brain regions that process physical pain. They say, “Love hurts.” Yes it does.

(pg. 245)

Thread 11:

The more comfortable and privileged some- one’s life is, the harder the brain makes it for them to appreciate the needs and issues of those worse off.(pg. 261)

Image Credits:

Title Page: http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans

Slide 3 - http://behappytips.com/look-egotistical/

Slide 12 - http://www.scaryforkids.com/love-hurts/

Slide 2 - http://www.walesonline.co.uk/incoming/you-idiot-brain-neuroscientist-trying-10805497

Slide 6 - http://sustainability.umich.edu/environ211/label-standardization/simplicity-and-convenience

Slide 5 - http://www.fabartdiy.com/fab-ideas-on-food-art-presentation/

Slide 11 - http://www.rareseeds.com/purple-calabash-tomato/

Slide 10 - http://irocklearningtechnologies.com/ImpressionManagement.html

Slide 13 - https://islampeace1.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/helping-poor-in-islam/

Slide 9 - http://bit.ly/2bSk9Hy

Slide 8 - http://www.deviantart.com/art/Worried-Landscape-8803459

Slide 7 - http://www.deviantart.com/art/Weird-Skeleton-Installation-1-208166366

Slide 4 - http://www.junodownload.com/products/nanda-constant-change/1560973-02/

Slide 15 - http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans

Mark Brady, PhDTheEnchantedLoom@gmail.com

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