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Your Brain at Work
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Your Brain at Work

by David Rock
October 2009
Beginner
304 pages
7h 41m
English
HarperCollins Publishers
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Note: Entries in this index, carried over verbatim from the print edition of this title, are unlikely to correspond to the pagination of any given e-book reader. However, entries in this index, and other terms, may be easily located by using the search feature of your e-book reader.

Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.

 

accelerators, 52

accidental connections, 110, 166, 176

accuracy, 35, 37, 43

action phase, 83

action potential, 54–55

adrenaline, 65, 66, 71, 83, 108, 110

“a-duh” vs. “aha” experience, 77, 211

affective forecasting, 13

age, 132, 177

alert signal, 138

allostatic load, 36, 65, 110–11

alpha band, 80, 83, 83

ambient neural activity, 48, 55

amygdale, 39–40, 103, 105–7, 110, 113–14, 122, 158

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ISBN: 9780061943546