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MindWideOpen Also by Steven Johnson Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate 3 of 216 MindWideOpen 4 of 216 MindWideOpen SCRIBNER 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 Copyright © 2004 by Steven Johnson All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. SCRIBNER and design are trademarks of Macmillan Library Reference USA, Inc., used under license by Simon & Schuster, the publisher of this work. Designed by Kyoko Watanabe Text set in Adobe Caslon Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Johnson, Steven. Mind wide open: your brain and the neuroscience of everyday life/ Steven Johnson. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Neurosciences. 2. Neuropsychology. 3. Self-perception. I. Title. RC341.J648 2004 612.8′2—dc22 2003063308 ISBN 0-7432-5879-7 Portions of this book first appeared in Discover Magazine and The Nation. “Reading the Mind in the Eyes” test and images used by permission of Simon Baron-Cohen. The test first appeared in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 1997. The “Reading the Mind in the Eyes” test is based on photographs from commercial sources. The test itself is used only for research and is not distributed for commercial profits. Copyright of each individual photograph cannot be traced from these photo fragments. Visit us on the World Wide Web: www.SimonSays.com 5 of 216 MindWideOpen For my boys 6 of 216 MindWideOpen …let winged Fancy wander Through the thought still spread beyond her: Open wide the mind’s cage-door… —KEATS 7 of 216 MindWideOpen Contents Preface: Kafka’s Room 1 Mind Sight 2 The Sum of My Fears 3 Your Attention, Please 4 Survival of the Ticklish 5 The Hormones Talking 6 Scan Thyself Conclusion: Mind Wide Open Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index 8 of 216 MindWideOpen 9 of 216 MindWideOpen The author’s brain, seen through a conventional MRI scan. 10 of 216 MindWideOpen 11 of 216

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In this nationally bestselling, compulsively readable account of what makes brain science a vital component of people's quest to know themselves, acclaimed science writer Steven Johnson subjects his own brain to a battery of tests to find out what's really going on inside. He asks: How do we "read"
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MindWideOpen Also by Steven Johnson Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate 3 of 216 MindWideOpen 4 of 216 MindWideOpen SCRIBNER 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 Copyright © 2004 by Steven Johnson All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. SCRIBNER and design are trademarks of Macmillan Library Reference USA, Inc., used under license by Simon & Schuster, the publisher of this work. Designed by Kyoko Watanabe Text set in Adobe Caslon Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Johnson, Steven. Mind wide open: your brain and the neuroscience of everyday life/ Steven Johnson. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Neurosciences. 2. Neuropsychology. 3. Self-perception. I. Title. RC341.J648 2004 612.8′2—dc22 2003063308 ISBN 0-7432-5879-7 Portions of this book first appeared in Discover Magazine and The Nation. “Reading the Mind in the Eyes” test and images used by permission of Simon Baron-Cohen. The test first appeared in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 1997. The “Reading the Mind in the Eyes” test is based on photographs from commercial sources. The test itself is used only for research and is not distributed for commercial profits. Copyright of each individual photograph cannot be traced from these photo fragments. Visit us on the World Wide Web: www.SimonSays.com 5 of 216 MindWideOpen For my boys 6 of 216 MindWideOpen …let winged Fancy wander Through the thought still spread beyond her: Open wide the mind’s cage-door… —KEATS 7 of 216 MindWideOpen Contents Preface: Kafka’s Room 1 Mind Sight 2 The Sum of My Fears 3 Your Attention, Please 4 Survival of the Ticklish 5 The Hormones Talking 6 Scan Thyself Conclusion: Mind Wide Open Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index 8 of 216 MindWideOpen 9 of 216 MindWideOpen The author’s brain, seen through a conventional MRI scan. 10 of 216 MindWideOpen 11 of 216

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In this nationally bestselling, compulsively readable account of what makes brain science a vital component of people's quest to know themselves, acclaimed science writer Steven Johnson subjects his own brain to a battery of tests to find out what's really going on inside. He asks: How do we "read"
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