Stephen M Kosslyn: 5 books

True or False? Most PowerPoint presentations are: ·compelling ·illuminating ·informative ·clear and to the point Answer: False Make a change following the principles of Stephen Kosslyn: ·a world authority on the visual brain ·a clear and engaging writer Making PowerPoint presentations that are...

Sono così tanti i libri su questo tema che i due autori, consapevoli della cosa, si chiedono fin dalla prima pagina: «Perché un ennesimo libro sul cervello?». E con buon senso dell’umorismo si rispondono da soli, baldanzosi: «Perché questo è diverso». Se Stephen Kosslyn fosse una persona...

When we try to remember whether we left a window open or closed, do we actually see the window in our mind? If we do, does this mental image play a role in how we think? For almost a century, scientists have debated whether mental images play a functional role in cognition. In The Case for Mental...

How to rebuild higher education from the ground up for the twenty-first century. Higher education is in crisis. It is too expensive, ineffective, and impractical for many of the world's students. But how would you reinvent it for the twenty-first century—how would you build it from the ground...

How do our brains allow us to recognize objects and locate them accurately in space, use mental imagery to remember yesterday's breakfast, read, understand speech, learn to dance, and recall a new telephone number? Recent breakthroughs in brain scanning and computing techniques have allowed researchers...