| | | Copyright |
| | | Dedication |
| | | Preface |
| | | | Why Mind Hacks? |
| | | | How to Use This Book |
| | | | How This Book Is Organized |
| | | | Conventions Used in This Book |
| | | | Using Material from This Book |
| | | | How to Contact Us |
| | | | Got a Hack? |
| | | Chapter 1. Inside the Brain |
| | | | Section 1.1. Hacks 1-12 |
| | | | Hack 1. Find Out How the Brain Works Without Looking Inside |
| | | | Hack 2. Electroencephalogram: Getting the Big Picture with EEGs |
| | | | Hack 3. Positron Emission Tomography: Measuring Activity Indirectly with PET |
| | | | Hack 4. Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: The State of the Art |
| | | | Hack 5. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: Turn On and Off Bits of the Brain |
| | | | Hack 6. Neuropsychology, the 10% Myth, and Why You Use All of Your Brain |
| | | | Hack 7. Get Acquainted with the Central Nervous System |
| | | | Hack 8. Tour the Cortex and the Four Lobes |
| | | | Hack 9. The Neuron |
| | | | Hack 10. Detect the Effect of Cognitive Function on Cerebral Blood Flow |
| | | | Hack 11. Why People Don't Work Like Elevator Buttons |
| | | | Hack 12. Build Your Own Sensory Homunculus |
| | | Chapter 2. Seeing |
| | | | Section 2.1. Hacks 13-33 |
| | | | Hack 13. Understand Visual Processing |
| | | | Hack 14. See the Limits of Your Vision |
| | | | Hack 15. To See, Act |
| | | | Hack 16. Map Your Blind Spot |
| | | | Hack 17. Glimpse the Gaps in Your Vision |
| | | | Hack 18. When Time Stands Still |
| | | | Hack 19. Release Eye Fixations for Faster Reactions |
| | | | Hack 20. Fool Yourself into Seeing 3D |
| | | | Hack 21. Objects Move, Lighting Shouldn't |
| | | | Hack 22. Depth Matters |
| | | | Hack 23. See How Brightness Differs from Luminance: The Checker Shadow Illusion |
| | | | Hack 24. Create Illusionary Depth with Sunglasses |
| | | | Hack 25. See Movement When All Is Still |
| | | | Hack 26. Get Adjusted |
| | | | Hack 27. Show Motion Without Anything Moving |
| | | | Hack 28. Motion Extrapolation: The "Flash-Lag Effect" |
| | | | Hack 29. Turn Gliding Blocks into Stepping Feet |
| | | | Hack 30. Understand the Rotating Snakes Illusion |
| | | | Hack 31. Minimize Imaginary Distances |
| | | | Hack 32. Explore Your Defense Hardware |
| | | | Hack 33. Neural Noise Isnt a Bug; Its a Feature |
| | | Chapter 3. Attention |
| | | | Section 3.1. Hacks 34-43 |
| | | | Hack 34. Detail and the Limits of Attention |
| | | | Hack 35. Count Faster with Subitizing |
| | | | Hack 36. Feel the Presence and Loss of Attention |
| | | | Hack 37. Grab Attention |
| | | | Hack 38. Don't Look Back! |
| | | | Hack 39. Avoid Holes in Attention |
| | | | Hack 40. Blind to Change |
| | | | Hack 41. Make Things Invisible Simply by Concentrating (on Something Else) |
| | | | Hack 42. The Brain Punishes Features that Cry Wolf |
| | | | Hack 43. Improve Visual Attention Through Video Games |
| | | Chapter 4. Hearing and Language |
| | | | Section 4.1. Hacks 44-52 |
| | | | Hack 44. Detect Timing with Your Ears |
| | | | Hack 45. Detect Sound Direction |
| | | | Hack 46. Discover Pitch |
| | | | Hack 47. Keep Your Balance |
| | | | Hack 48. Detect Sounds on the Margins of Certainty |
| | | | Hack 49. Speech Is Broadband Input to Your Head |
| | | | Hack 50. Give Big-Sounding Words to Big Concepts |
| | | | Hack 51. Stop Memory-Buffer Overrun While Reading |
| | | | Hack 52. Robust Processing Using Parallelism |
| | | Chapter 5. Integrating |
| | | | Section 5.1. Hacks 53-61 |
| | | | Hack 53. Put Timing Information into Sound and Location Information into Light |
| | | | Hack 54. Don't Divide Attention Across Locations |
| | | | Hack 55. Confuse Color Identification with Mixed Signals |
| | | | Hack 56. Don't Go There |
| | | | Hack 57. Combine Modalities to Increase Intensity |
| | | | Hack 58. Watch Yourself to Feel More |
| | | | Hack 59. Hear with Your Eyes: The McGurk Effect |
| | | | Hack 60. Pay Attention to Thrown Voices |
| | | | Hack 61. Talk to Yourself |
| | | Chapter 6. Moving |
| | | | Section 6.1. Hacks 62-69 |
| | | | Hack 62. The Broken Escalator Phenomenon: When Autopilot Takes Over |
| | | | Hack 63. Keep Hold of Yourself |
| | | | Hack 64. Mold Your Body Schema |
| | | | Hack 65. Why Can't You Tickle Yourself? |
| | | | Hack 66. Trick Half Your Mind |
| | | | Hack 67. Objects Ask to Be Used |
| | | | Hack 68. Test Your Handedness |
| | | | Hack 69. Use Your Right Brainand Your Left, Too |
| | | Chapter 7. Reasoning |
| | | | Section 7.1. Hacks 70-74 |
| | | | Hack 70. Use Numbers Carefully |
| | | | Hack 71. Think About Frequencies Rather than Probabilities |
| | | | Hack 72. Detect Cheaters |
| | | | Hack 73. Fool Others into Feeling Better |
| | | | Hack 74. Maintain the Status Quo |
| | | Chapter 8. Togetherness |
| | | | Section 8.1. Hacks 75-80 |
| | | | Hack 75. Grasp the Gestalt |
| | | | Hack 76. To Be Noticed, Synchronize in Time |
| | | | Hack 77. See a Person in Moving Lights |
| | | | Hack 78. Make Things Come Alive |
| | | | Hack 79. Make Events Understandable as Cause and Effect |
| | | | Hack 80. Act Without Knowing It |
| | | Chapter 9. Remembering |
| | | | Section 9.1. Hacks 81-92 |
| | | | Hack 81. Bring Stuff to the Front of Your Mind |
| | | | Hack 82. Subliminal Messages Are Weak and Simple |
| | | | Hack 83. Fake Familiarity |
| | | | Hack 84. Keep Your Sources Straight (if You Can) |
| | | | Hack 85. Create False Memories |
| | | | Hack 86. Change Context to Build Robust Memories |
| | | | Hack 87. Boost Memory Using Context |
| | | | Hack 88. Think Yourself Strong |
| | | | Hack 89. Navigate Your Way Through Memory |
| | | | Hack 90. Have an Out-of-Body Experience |
| | | | Hack 91. Enter the Twilight Zone: The Hypnagogic State |
| | | | Hack 92. Make the Caffeine Habit Taste Good |
| | | Chapter 10. Other People |
| | | | Section 10.1. Hacks 93-100 |
| | | | Hack 93. Understand What Makes Faces Special |
| | | | Hack 94. Signal Emotion |
| | | | Hack 95. Make Yourself Happy |
| | | | Hack 96. Reminisce Hot and Cold |
| | | | Hack 97. Look Where I'm Looking |
| | | | Hack 98. Monkey See, Monkey Do |
| | | | Hack 99. Spread a Bad Mood Around |
| | | | Hack 100. You Are What You Think |
| | | Colophon |
| | | Index |