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Making up the Mind. How the Brain Creates our Mental World

An excellent introduction to neuroscience, presenting the current knowledge about the brain work, describing how this organ receives and processes incoming information. The book, brilliantly written, with numerous illustrations, is compulsory reading for students and researchers in psychology, biology, medicine, philosophy, computer science and cognitive theory. It will also be fascinating for all the readers interested in mental processes, emotions and perceptions, and seeking the answers to the question about the extent to which the world of our brain is real.

Keywords: mind, brain, consciousness, emotions, perception, optical illusions, phantoms, hallucinations, empathy, brain imaging techniques, research on mental activity.

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Chris Frith – an outstanding specialist in the field of brain science. For many years, he has been studying higher cognitive functions through functional magnetic resonance. Author of important books on this topic, among others: Schizophrenia: A Very Short Introduction and The Neuroscience of Social Interaction. Od mózgu do umysłu is the first book, by this author, to be published in Polish.