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04512cam a22004574a 4500 001 415B9F362B0F11DE8F715E08A8D7520A 003 SILO 005 20090730150947 008 060925s2007 enkaf b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2006031708 020 $a 0198568770 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780198568773 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 0198568762 (hbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780198568766 (hbk. : alk. paper) 040 $a NLM $c NLM $d SILO $d YDXCP $d BAKER $d BWKUK $d BTCTA $d UKM $d NLGGC $d BWK $d MNY $d OCLCQ $d IWO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a QP376 $b .T354 2007 082 00 $a 612.8/2 $2 22 084 $a 77.50 $2 bcl 245 0 $a Tall tales about the mind and brain : $b separating fact from fiction / $c edited by Sergio Della Sala. 260 $a New York : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2007. 300 $a xxxvii, 509 p., [2] p. of plates : $b ill. (some col.) ; $c 26 cm. 500 $a Errata slip inserted. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction. The myth of 10% and other tall tales about the mind and the brain / Sergio Della Sala and Barry Beyerstein -- [Pt. I.] Where do tall tales about the mind and brain come from? -- 1. Cognitive factors underlying paranormal beliefs and experiences / Christopher C. French and Krissy Wilson -- 2. Critically thinking about paranormal belief / Peter Lamont -- 3. The magic in the brain : how conjuring works to deceive our minds / Massimo Polidoro -- [Pt. II.] Tall tales on memory and learning -- 4. The legend of the magical number seven / Nelson Cowan, Candice C. Morey and Zhijian Chen -- 5. Setting the record (or video camera) straight on memory : the video camera model of memory and other myths / Seema L. Clifasefi, Maryanne Garry and Elizabeth Loftus -- 6. The myth of the incredible eyewitness / Amina Memon and Don Thomson -- 7. We have got the whole child witness thing figured out, or have we? / Rachel Sutherland, Deryn Strange and Maryanne Garry -- [Pt. III.] Tall tales on intelligence -- 8. Is bigger really better? : the search for brain size and intelligence in the twenty-first century / David P. Carey -- 9. Biology and intelligence : the race/IQ controversy / Mike Anderson -- 10. The Mozart effect : it's time to face the music! / Colin Gray and Sergio Della Sala -- 11. The powers and perils of intuition / David G. Myers -- 12. Creative thinking : the mystery myth / Ken Gilhooly -- [Pt. III.] Tall tales on language and communication -- 13. The more, the merrier : facts and beliefs about the bilingual mind / Antonella Sorace -- 14. The merry vibes of Wintzer : the tale of foreign accent syndrome / Nick Miller -- 15. Talking with the dead, communicating with the future and other myths created by cold reading / Ray Hyman -- 16. Graphology : a total write-off / Barry L. Beyerstein -- 17. The truth about deception / Aldert Vrij and Samantha Mann -- [Pt. IV.] Tall tales on the brain -- 18. The dual-brain myth / Michael C. Corballis -- 19. The neurology of the weird : brain states and anomalous experience / Barry L. Beyerstein -- 20. The myth of the clonable human brain / Giovanni Berlucchi -- 21. Out on a limb : neglect and confabulation in the study of aplasic phantoms / Peter Brugger and Marion Funk -- 22. Imagery and blindness / Cesare Cornoldi and Rossana DeBeni -- 23. Something wicked this way comes : causes and interpretations of sleep paralysis / Christopher C. French and Julia Santomauro -- [Pt. V.] Tall tales on the mind -- 24. The power of the full moon : running on empty? / Eric H. Chudler -- 25. Ouija, dowsing and other seductions of ideomotor action / Ray Hyman -- 26. Inducing out-of-body experiences / Olaf Blanke and Gregor Thut -- 27. Can mind conquer cancer? / Barry L. Beyerstein ... [et al.] -- 28. The elusive search for a 'gay gene' / Fernando Saravi -- 29. To sleep, perchance to REM? : the rediscovered role of emotion and meaning in dreams / Mark Solms and Oliver Turnbull. 650 12 $a Brain. 650 22 $a Folklore. 650 22 $a Mythology. 650 22 $a Neurosciences. 650 0 $a Brain $v Miscellanea. 650 0 $a Neurosciences $v Miscellanea. 650 0 $a Tall tales. 650 0 $a Common fallacies. 650 17 $a Neurowetenschappen. $2 gtt 650 17 $a Hersenen. $2 gtt 700 1 $a Della Sala, Sergio. 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200303023013.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20171227030956.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=415B9F362B0F11DE8F715E08A8D7520A 994 $a 02 $b IWOInitiate Another SILO Locator Search