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by Elkhonon Goldberg

ISBN: 1592401104
ISBN13: 978-1592401109
Language: English
Publisher: Gotham (February 17, 2005)
Pages: 352
Category: Psychology and Counseling
Subategory: Diets and Fitness

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The Wisdom Paradox is unusually easy and enjoyable to read for a book loaded with information and ideas . Goldberg, who was the great Luria's student and collaborator, is even more colorful and fun to read than the master. He is egocentric, abrasive, opinionated, and colorful.

The Wisdom Paradox is unusually easy and enjoyable to read for a book loaded with information and ideas about the brain. is a gifted explicator and a talented writer. A book of wise reflections on the gains, not the losses, that come to the older human mind.

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The Wisdom Paradox explores the aging of the mind from a unique, positive perspective

The Wisdom Paradox explores the aging of the mind from a unique, positive perspective. In an era of increasing fears about mental deterioration, world-renowned neuropsychologist Elkhonon Goldberg provides startling new evidence that though the brain diminishes in some tasks as it ages, it gains in many ways. Most notably, it increases in what he terms wisdom the ability to draw upon knowledge and experience gained over a lifetime to make quick and effective decisions.

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How does culture help shape individual creativity? Creativity: The Human Brain in the Age of Innovation by Elkhonon Goldberg is arguably the first ever book to address these and other questions in a way that is both rigorous and engaging, demystifying human creativity for the general public. The synthesis of neuroscience and the humanities is a unique feature of the book, making it of interest to an unusually broad range of readership

The Wisdom Paradox is unusually easy and enjoyable to read for a book loaded with information and ideas about . Here is a valuable addition to the literature on aging. antonio r. damasio, author of descartes’ error, the feeling of what happens, and looking for spinoza

The Wisdom Paradox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger As Your Brain Grows Older. The Wisdom Paradox explores the aging of the mind from a unique, positive perspective.

The Wisdom Paradox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger As Your Brain Grows Older. Age, executive functions, and visuospatial functioning in healthy older adults. DJ Libon, G Glosser, BL Malamut, E Kaplan, E Goldberg, R Swenson,. The new executive brain: Frontal lobes in a complex world. Oxford University Press, 2009. Neuropsychology 8 (1), 38, 1994.

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. 20,000 first printing.

Comments:

Truthcliff

I once read a description of someone (I can't recall who) who spent a lot of time "organizing his mind." That's an evocative remark, but not easy to act on. For those peculiar enough of chew on such an idea Goldberg's book offers a genuine road map. I think he succeeds in demonstrating that we really can organize our minds.

Arashigore

If you like the thinker's prose, the so-called "romantic science",a style attributed to the Russian neuroscientist A. R. Luria,which consists in publishing original research in literary form, you would love this book. Clearly intellectual scientists are vanishing under the weight of the commoditization of the discipline. But once in a while someone emerges to reverse such setbacks.

Goldberg, who was the great Luria's student and collaborator, is even more colorful and fun to read than the master. He is egocentric, abrasive, opinionated, and colorful. He is also disdainful of the conventional beliefs in neurosciences --for instance he is suspicious of the assignment of specific functions, such as language, to anatomical regions. He is also skeptical of the journalistic "triune" brain. His theory is that the hemispheric specialization is principally along pattern matching and information processing lines:the left side stores patterns, while the right one processes novel tasks. It is convincing to see that children suffer more from a right brain injury, while adults have the opposite effect.

There is a little bit of open plugging of Goldberg's for-profit institute;he would have gotten better results by being subtle. A fre minor points. I did not understand why Goldberg discusses "modularity", of which he is critical, as if it were the same thing in both neurobiology and in cognitive science. In neurobiology, modularity implies regional localization, while cognitive scientists (Marr, Fodor, etc.) make no such assumption: for them it is entirely functional and they would be in great agreement with Goldberg. Also I did not understand why he attributes the language instinct to Pinker, not Chomsky, and why he makes snide remarks about behavioral scientists like Kahneman and Tversky. But these are very minor details that do not weaken the message (I still gave the book 5 stars). I am now spoiled; I need more essays by opinionated, original,and intellectual, contemporary scientists.

net rider

met expectations

Washington

Really enjoy reading this book. Since I had a stroke over 5 years ago I've continued to read about "the brain" since. This book just give a great understanding of the brain written in words easily understood.

Netlandinhabitant

Superb book--I know the author, a world famous man--order it, even if you are not a psychologist.

Hidden Winter

Great book that helps you understand the inner workings of the aging mind.

Zavevidi

Amazing!

So good!