Use your eyes, ears, and imagination to explore your amazing mind and sharpen your wits.
Want to paint like a prodigy, experiment like a scientist, or even invent the next new technology? Put your grey matter to the brain-training test and see how you measure up to some of the greatest thinkers in history. Tackle brain-boggling puzzles, games, and optical illusions and discover what makes your brain work: from why you smile to what is going on inside your head and what side of your brain does what. Learn about neurons, how memory works and how to boost your creativity.
This ebook makes a complex subject fun, accessible and exciting, and is perfect for any child, whether they are intent on becoming a genius or just want to have fun with clever activities at home, on a journey or in school.
Author(s): DK
Publisher: DK Children
Year: 2022
CONTENTS
Your amazing brain
MEET YOUR BRAIN
Mapping the brain
Left brain, right brain
Taking sides
Nerves and neurons
Brain waves
What is a genius?
COME TO YOUR SENSES
Brain and eyes
Tricky pictures
How you see
Simple illusions
Impossible illusions
How you hear
Sounds like?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Taste and smell
Sensitive senses
How you feel and touch
Touch and tell
Tricking the mind
Magic tricks
Sensing your body
Body illusions
Intuition
HOW MEMORY WORKS
How you think
What is memory?
Improve your memory
Do you remember?
Paying attention
Making associations
Albert Einstein
PROBLEM SOLVING
How you learn
Mastering mazes
Puzzling patterns
Intelligence types
George Washington Carver
Logic
Illogical thinking
Brainteasers
Thinking inside the box
Mathematical thinking
Think of a number
The magic of maths
Spatial awareness
Seeing in 2-D
Thinking in 3-D
Invention
Mária Telkes
A WAY WITH WORDS
Learning to speak
Having a word
Using language
Words aloud
Reading and writing
Jean-Franςois Champollion
THE CREATIVE MIND
What is creativity?
Are you a creative spark?
Maya Angelou
Boost your creativity
Creative exercises
Leonardo da Vinci
YOUR BRAIN AND YOU
Sense of self
Personality types
What about you?
Mary Anning
The unconscious
Dreams
Emotions
Rigoberta Menchú
Fear
Reading emotions
Body talk
Good and bad habits
Winning and losing
THE EVOLVING BRAIN
How we got our brains
Charles Darwin
How the brain grows
Brain surgery
Animal intelligence
Train your pet
Can machines think?
Program your friend
Glossary
Answers
Index
Acknowledgments
