- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Bantam; New edition edition (5 Oct 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0553813250
- ISBN-13: 978-0553813258
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.4 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 426,420 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A rich and imaginatively written look at how the brain works.
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Listen. Can you hear an aircraft passing overhead? A dog barking? The twittering of birds? In straining to listen, you have just sent a surge of electrical activity through millions of brain cells. In choosing to do this with your mind, you have changed your brain - you have made brain cells fire, at the side of your head, above the right eye. By the time you’ve read this far, you will have changed your brain permanently. These words will leave a faint trace in the woven electricity of you. For ‘you’ exists in the trembling web of connected brain cells. This web is in flux, continually remoulded, sculpted by the restless energy of the world. That energy is transformed at your senses into the utterly unique weave of brain connections that is YOU.
In the last decade, new research has demonstrated the way in which the brain is shaped by experience and sculpted by our interactions with the world around us. As one of the world’s leading authorities on brain rehabilitation, Ian Robertson is uniquely placed to explore these ground-breaking discoveries, that free us from the currently fashionable genetically determinist view. Mind Sculpture is a singularly accessible and imaginative book which communicates the excitement and challenge of the most recent research, its consequences for how we understand the brain and how we perceive ourselves.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The book that taught me 'What wires together fires together'. Since reading this I have read many 'mind' type books - this remains one of my favourite. Very well written and understandable. Recommended to anyone interested in the mind, from layman to would-be psychotherapist.
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I am eager to buy good PMA books - but there is such a lot to choose from on the bookshelves these days....and not all are good reading. This weekend I browsed the shelves of Stansted Airport's bookshop and noticed Mind Scultpture. Intrigued by the text on the rear cover, I bought it...and haven't put it down since. Mind Sculpture is a fascinating insight into what actually makes us tick. It explains things like why "what the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve" (Napolean Hill). I have a 7 month old baby boy, and Mind Sculpture gave me a new perspective on what's going to go on in this little guy's mind as he grows and learns. Fascinating book, especially if you want to understand the mechanics of our brains rather than the theory behind PMA.
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