文档介绍：Will Brain Scans
Keep Killers
Out of Prison?
MTHOUGHT •IND IDEAS • BRAIN SCIENCE
How Brilliance Arises
CREA IVI Y
Tin Every One of UsT
Déjà Vu Explained
Mental Workouts
for ess
Alien Impostors
Does Brain
Equal Mind?
Sizing Up
Strangers
PLUS:
Brain
Puzzles
and
Illusions
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FEATURES Volume 16, Number 1 MIND
16 >> Unleashing Creativity
BY ULRICH KRAFT
Moments of brilliance arise plex
cognitive processes. Piece by piece,
researchers are uncovering the secrets of
creative thinking.
24 >> Fact or Phrenology?
BY DAVID DOBBS
The growing controversy over fMRI scans is
forcing us to confront whether brain equals mind.
32 >> Strangely Familiar
BY UWE WOLFRADT
Researchers are starting to pin down what déjà
vu is and why it arises. But have you read this
already? Maybe you just can’t remember.
38 >> Drowning Mr. M
BY PATRICK VERSTICHEL AND PASCALE LARROUY
He knows he is suffocating at the bottom of the
pool, but he doesn’t feel like swimming right now.
42 >> Neuroscience and the Law
BY MICHAEL S. GAZZANIGA AND MEGAN S. STEVEN
Rapid advances in neuroscience could affect
court proceedings in many ways, from
determining a defendant’s violent tendencies
to reducing sentences for killers.
Also: “The New Lie Detectors,” by 16
Laurence R. Tancredi
50 >> What’s Wrong with
This Picture?
BY SCOTT O. LILIENFELD, JAMES M. WOOD AND
HOWARD N. GARB
Psychologists often use the famous Rorschach
inkblot test to assess mental illness. But
the instruments are frequently ineffective.
58 >> Alien Friends
BY THOMAS GRÜTER AND ULRICH KRAFT
For people with Capgras syndrome, loved ones
have been taken over by body doubles.
Their experience teaches us that feelings are
integral to perception.
64 >> The Will to Win
BY STEVE J. AYAN
More and more athletes are engaging in mental
workouts to give themselves that e