SANDRA BLAKESLEE

El cerebro no es un ordenador, sino un sistema de memoria que almacena experiencias d euna manera que refleja la estructura real del mundo, recordando secuencias de acontecimientos y sus relaciones ocultas y haciendo predicciones a partir de esos recuerdos. Este sistema de memoria-prediccion forma la base de la inteligencia, de la percepcion, la creatividad y la consciencia.La teoria sobre la inteligencia que plantean los autores se apoya en las creencias de que una nueva comprension del cerebro nos llevara a crear maquinas realmente inteligentes.

El divorcio no es un acontecimiento aislado; es una trayectoria que durante toda la vida demandará una visión diferente de la educación de los hijos.

The groundbreaking handbook that helps parents guide their children through divorce and co-parenting, from a New York Times bestselling author and child psychologist. This is the definitive work from the renowned child psychologist Judith Wallerstein on a subject that concerns millions of American moms and dads: How can you protect your children during and after divorce? Divorce is not a single event but a lifelong trajectory of changed circumstances that demand a different kind of parenting than we have ever known. In What About the Kids? Wallerstein draws on thirty years of in-depth interviews with children of divorce and their parents to show how to create a new family with compassion and wisdom. It covers issues that arise at the time of divorce as well as suggestions for talking to your children months and years after the event. Eminent psychologist Judith S. Wallerstein shares her unique insight and advice, including: The best and worst ages for children to experience their parents divorce Right and wrong ways to explain divorce to your children Choosing a custody arrangement thats best for your child How to involve the grandparents a major resource? Getting your children on your side when you form new relationships The positive effects of divorce on children (believe it or not) How divorce can actually make you a better parent Raising children who grow up able to form lasting relationships

In this compelling, cutting-edge book, two generations of science writers explore the exciting science of body maps in the brainand how startling new discoveries about the mind-body connection can change and improve our lives. Why do you still feel fat after losing weight? What makes video games so addictive? How can practicing your favorite sport in your imagination improve your game? The answers can be found in body maps.Just as road maps represent interconnections across the landscape, your many body maps represent all aspects of your bodily self, inside and out. In concert, they create your physical and emotional awareness and your sense of being a whole, feeling self in a larger social world.Moreover, your body maps are profoundly elastic. Your self doesnt begin and end with your physical body but extends into the space around you. This space morphs every time you put on or take off clothes, ride a bike, or wield a tool. When you drive a car, your personal body space grows to envelop it. When you play a video game, your body maps automatically track and emulate the actions of your character onscreen. When you watch a scary movie, your body maps put dread in your stomach and send chills down your spine. If your body maps fall out of sync, you may have an out-of-body experience or see auras around other people.The Body Has a Mind of Its Own explains how you can tap into the power of body maps to do almost anything betterwhether it is playing tennis, strumming a guitar, riding a horse, dancing a waltz, empathizing with a friend, raising children, or coping with stress. The story of body maps goes even further, providing a fresh look at the causes of anorexia, bulimia, obsessive plastic surgery, and the notorious golfers curse the yips. It lends insights into culture, language, music,parenting, emotions, chronic pain, and more. Filled with illustrations, wonderful anecdotes, and even parlor tricks that you can use to reconfigure your body sense, The Body Has a Mind of Its Own will change the way you thinkabout the way you think.The Blakeslees have taken the latest and most exciting finds from brain research and have made them accessible. This is how science writing should always be.Michael S. Gazzaniga, Ph.D., author of The Ethical BrainThrough a stream of fascinating and entertaining examples, Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee illustrate how our perception of ourselves, and indeed the world, is not fixed but is surprisingly fluid and easily modified. They have created the best book ever written about how our sense of self emerges from the motley collection of neurons we call the brain.Jeff Hawkins, co-author of On Intelligence The Blakeslees have taken the latest and most exciting finds from brain research and have made them accessible. This is how science writing should always be.Michael S. Gazzaniga, Ph.D., author of The Ethical BrainA marvelous book. In the last ten years there has been a paradigm shift in understanding the brain and how its various specialized regions respond to environmental challenges. In addition to providing a brilliant overview of recent revolutionary discoveries on body image and brain plasticity, the book is sprinkled with numerous insights.V. S. Ramachandran, M.D., director, Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California, San Diego