Дэниел Левитин

In the digital age we are overwhelmed by information. Unable to make sense of it all, our creativity plummets, decision making suffers and we grow absent-minded. The twenty-first century sees us drowning under emails, forever juggling six tasks at once and trying to make complex decisions ever more quickly. This is information overload. In The Organized Mind, we learn how we got here and why sm...

Автор объясняет, почему нашему мозгу приходится очень сложно в условиях избытка информации: почему мы забываем или теряем вещи, — и показывает, как с этим бороться.

In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin (The World in Six Songs) explores the connection between music, its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it, and the human brain. Drawing on the latest research and on musical examples ranging from Mozart to Duke Ellington to Van Halen, Levitin reveals: - How composers prod...

Доступное и богатое на примеры руководство по критическому мышлению, актуальное как никогда раньше. Это книга о том, как распознавать проблемы с помощью тех фактов, которые вам встречаются, проблемы, которые могут привести вас к неправильным выводам. Иногда те, кто предлагает вам какие-то факты, так и ждут, что вы сделаете неверное заключение. Иногда они и сами не видят разницы. Сегодня информа...

New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin shifts his keen insights from your brain on music to your brain in a sea of details. The information age is drowning us with an unprecedented deluge of data. At the same time, we?re expected to make more?and faster?decisions about our lives than ever before. No wonder, then, that the average American reports frequently losin...

In the digital age we are overwhelmed by information. Unable to make sense of it all, our creativity plummets, decision making suffers and we grow absent-minded. The twenty-first century sees us drowning under emails, forever juggling six tasks at once and trying to make complex decisions ever more quickly. This is information overload. In The Organized Mind, we learn how we got here and why sm...

Автор объясняет, почему нашему мозгу приходится очень сложно в условиях избытка информации: почему мы забываем или теряем вещи, — и показывает, как с этим бороться.

In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin (The World in Six Songs) explores the connection between music, its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it, and the human brain. Drawing on the latest research and on musical examples ranging from Mozart to Duke Ellington to Van Halen, Levitin reveals: - How composers prod...