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Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain

Lisa Feldman Barrett’s Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain sheds some light on our most powerful organ and its intriguing processes.

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Review of ‘Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain’

If you think you know all about the brain, think again! According to neuroscientist and Northeastern University professor of psychology Lisa Feldman Barrett (How Emotions Are Made) in her delightful new book Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain, “your brain is not for thinking.” This is the titular half-lesson that introduces this slim tome of short, informal essays, which are…

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