Making Up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World

Written by one of the world's leading neuroscientists, Making Up the Mind is the first accessible account of experimental studies showing how the brain creates our mental world.

• Uses evidence from brain imaging, psychological experiments and studies of patients to explore the relationship between the mind and the brain
  
• Demonstrates that our knowledge of both the mental and physical comes to us through models created by our brain
  
• Shows how the brain makes communication of ideas from one mind to another possible

Author: Chris Frith
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 03/01/2007
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.32w x 0.78d
ISBN: 9781405160223

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2008 pg. 1183

About the Author
Chris Frith is Professor in Neuropsychology at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London. His publications include Schizophrenia: A Very Short Introduction (2003, with Eve C. Johnstone) and The Neuroscience of Social Interaction (2004, edited with Daniel Wolpert).