How does your brain decide what it's seeing, from the physical world to other people? A groundbreaking neuroscientist reshapes how we understand our own minds.
For decades, scientists have tried to understand how our brains work, not realising that the answer lies much closer to home than it seems. The latest research in neuroscience and psychology suggests that the brain is doing the same thing scientists do: using past experience to build theories of how the world works, and using those models to predict and make sense of it. Through this process, your brain constructs the reality you live in.
In this book, Daniel Yon takes the research a step further, uncovering how your brain colours your perception of the world, the judgements you make about other people, and the beliefs you form about yourself — processes that help us navigate the world but can also lead us astray, causing us to believe outlandish conspiracy theories or see things that aren't really there.
Praise
“This book will profoundly change the way you consider your own mind.” — Lewis Dartnell, bestselling author of The Knowledge
“You will not find a more up-to-date or more compelling account of how a mind emerges from the brain.” — Chris Frith, Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology, UCL
About the author
Daniel Yon is an experimental psychologist, cognitive neuroscientist and director of The Uncertainty Lab at Birkbeck, University of London. He received the Experimental Psychology Society's EPS Prize in 2024.
