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Our brains are noisy; certain regions are always grinding away at involuntary activities like daydreaming, worrying about the future, and self-chatter, taking up to forty-seven percent of our waking time. This is mindwandering—and while it can tug your attention away from the present, cognitive neuroscientist Moshe Bar is here to tell you about the method behind this apparent madness. Mindwandering is the first popular book to explore this multi-faceted phenomenon of your wandering mind and introduces you to the new, exciting research behind it.

In Mind in Motion, psychologist Barbara Tversky shows that spatial cognition isn't just a peripheral aspect of thought, but its very foundation, enabling us to draw meaning from our bodies and their actions in the world. Our actions in real space get turned into mental actions on thought, often spouting spontaneously from our bodies as gestures. Spatial thinking underlies creating and using maps, assembling furniture, devising football strategies, designing airports, understanding the flow of people, traffic, water, and ideas.

Lange herrschte in der Wissenschaft die Auffassung vor, das Gehirn sei eine irgendwann fertig ausgebildete Struktur, an der sich ab einem bestimmten Alter kaum mehr nennenswerte Veränderungen ergeben. Heute weiß man es besser: Ihr Gehirn ist ein hochflexibles Organ, das lebenslang zu enormen Entwicklungen, Veränderungen und Erweiterungen fähig ist – und den Prozess können Sie gezielt gestalten. Das Stichwort „Neuroplastizität" beschreibt genau diese Fähigkeit und dieses Buch zeigt Ihnen, wie Sie das Prinzip nutzen, um tiefgreifende Veränderungen für Ihr Leben zu bewirken.

This overview discusses how important imagination is and the major effect it has on our lives, including the role it plays in hallucinations, moods, and creativity.