The Wandering Mind: What The Brain Does When You'Re Not Looking

Does the fact that as much as fifty percent of our waking hours [finds] us failing to focus on the task at hand represent a problem? Michael Corballis doesn't think so, and with [this book], he shows us why, rehabilitating woolgathering and revealing its ... useful effects. Drawing on the latest research from cognitive science and evolutionary biology, Corballis [posits that] mind-wandering not only frees us from moment-to-moment drudgery, but also from the limitations of our immediate selves--Amazon.com.

• | Author: Michael C. Corballis
• | Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 28, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 184 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 022641891X
• | ISBN-13: 9780226418919