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(0)Elkhonon Goldberg
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A provocative study on the mental abilities of the aging brain challenges beliefs about the mind's tendency to decline with age, explaining how older people have greater capacities for making intuitive and wisdom-based decisions, and citing recent and historical examples of individuals who achieved their greatest successes in their later years.
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Drawing on a number of cutting-edge discoveries from brain research as well as on his own insights as a neuroscientist and neuropsychologist, Goldberg presents a wide-ranging discussion of history, culture, and evolution to arrive at an original understanding of the nature of human creativity. He discusses the origins of language, the nature of several neurological disorders, animal cognition, virtual reality, and even artificial intelligence. Included...
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The author explores how the brain engages in complex decision-making; how it deals with novelty and ambiguity; and how it addresses moral choices. The author also challenges entrenched assumptions. For example, we know the left hemisphere of the brain is the seat of language--but he argues that language may not be the central adaptation of the left hemisphere. Apes lack language, yet many also show evidence of asymmetric hemispheric development. He...