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Index
Page numbers in italic denote references.
Addis, Donna Rose ix, 19, 164, 165
amnesia 19–24, 38, 54
animals 43–49, 59, 62, 64, 77, 78–84, 86, 114–115, 155
apes 43–44, 45, 46, 49, 52, 78, 79, 80–81, 82, 83, 86, 94, 95, 96
birds 44–45, 46–47, 62, 80, 115, 155
cats 77, 78, 79, 122
dogs 43, 77, 78, 79, 81–82, 87, 115
monkeys 78, 86, 94
rats (‘Walter Ratty’) 57, 58, 59–61, 64, 86, 115, 122–123, 125
attention viii, ix, 3, 8–11, 20, 93, 110, 131, 147
Auel, Jean 96
Bateson, Gregory 87, 167
Berger, Hans 5, 6, 66, 69
bicameral mind 131–133
Bloom, Paul 70, 166
Boyd, Brian ix, 86, 101, 167
brain-imaging 6, 57, 73, 106, 152
Call, Josep 80, 166
Campbell, Donald T. 153–154, 169
‘Clever Hans’ 47–48, 64
Corballis, Michael 19, 43, 55, 63, 83n, 93, 96, 164, 165, 166, 167, 169
Corkin, Suzanne ix, 20, 28, 163
creativity viii, 11, 146–152, 156–162
and randomness 153–160
and right brain 149–153
Darwin, Charles 44, 47, 52, 79, 83, 122, 164, 166, 168
de Bono, Edward 153, 169
de Waal, Frans 76, 166
default-mode network 7–8, 55, 73, 110, 152
dreams vii, 2, 8, 10, 14, 16, 31, 36–37, 43, 59, 64, 98, 111–126, 128, 133–134, 137, 139, 142, 144, 146, 156–158, 62
Freudian theory 117–119, 122
in NREM sleep 111, 123–125
in REM sleep 111, 113–115, 122–125
as simulated threats 120–123
drugs 77, 129, 139, 140–144
Dunbar, Robin 94, 167
Edwards, Betty 151, 169
Esquirol, Jean-Étienne 128, 130
Freud, Sigmund 67, 117–119, 122, 168
gestures 81, 92–97
Grandin, Temple 74–77, 166
Gross, Charles 53, 165
hallucinations 111–112, 128–144, 146, 159
drug-induced 129, 140–144, 156–160
electrically induced 133–137
and mental illness 128, 130
and religious experience 131–132
and right brain 132–133
and sensory deprivation 138–140, 144
Hamilton, William D. 76
Hare, Brian 81, 166
hippocampus 52–64, 112, 123–125, 134, 136
and cognitive map 56–57, 61–62
and memory 54–60, 64, 125, 134, 136
and mental time travel 54–64
and place cells 56–60, 123
hippocampus minor (calcar avis) 52–53
Humphrey, Nicholas 83–84, 166
hunting 86, 89–90, 92
Huxley, Thomas Henry 47, 52–53
Ingvar, David H. 6, 163
James, William 40, 67, 129–131, 141, 143, 156, 169
Janet, Pierre 97, 167
Jaynes, Julian 131–133, 136, 149, 151, 169
Kammann, Richard 70, 166
Kingsley, Rev. Charles 52–54
Kipling, Rudyard 149, 153
Köhler, Wolfgang 43–44, 161
Laing, R. D. 75, 166
language 15–16, 20, 40, 48, 91–97, 99, 100, 107, 113, 132, 146, 150
evolution of 40, 91–97
gestural origins 91–97
in great apes 94–95
sign language 92, 94–95
speech 15, 52, 90, 95–96, 134, 149
left brain/right brain dichotomy 132–133, 136, 148–153
life after death 41, 98
Loftus, Elizabeth 28–29, 164
Luria, Aleksandr Romanov 25, 26, 164
Marks, David 70, 166
Markus, Hazel 40, 164
McGilchrist, Iain 123, 148, 151, 169
Mechling, Jay 87, 167
memory 11, 12, 14–33, 36–39, 44–45, 54–64, 93, 100, 112–113, 116, 119–120, 123, 125–126, 134–137, 139, 141, 150, 156, 161
in animals 43–49, 58–64
false memories 28–33
layers of 15–19
mnemonics 25–28, 62, 100
repression 30, 90, 134
super-memory 24, 25, 26–28 see also amnesia
mental time travel viii, 36–49, 54–64, 83n, 86, 88, 114, 124, 129, 137, 144, 156
mindfulness 10, 147
mind-wandering vii-viii, 2–3, 6–8, 10–11, 14–18, 26, 36, 38, 55, 59, 66, 70–73, 86, 104, 126, 129, 146–148, 152, 156, 161–162
and blinking 6
and creativity viii, 146–152, 161
and early death 9, 147
earworms 4, 100, 138
and unhappiness 8–11, 16, 147
Mitty, Walter 2, 11, 66, 110
Mizumori, Sheri 64, 165
Molaison, Henry (‘H.M.’) 20, 38, 54
Morgan, Conwy Lloyd 47–48
Nabokov, Vladimir 14, 26, 164
Nadel, Lynn 56, 58, 165
Neanderthals 82, 95, 121
Niles, John 86, 167
Nurius, Paula 40, 164
O’Keefe, John 56, 58, 165
Owen, Sir Richard 52–53
Penfield, Wilder 133–134, 169
Plath, Sylvia 160, 170
play 86–88
Premack, David 74, 80, 166
psychic phenomena 5, 66–71, 95
Radin, Dean 68, 166
Raichle, Markus 7, 163
Randi, James 69, 166
religion 41, 42, 83, 99, 101, 131, 141, 143
Revonsuo, Antti 120, 168
Sacks, Oliver 23, 129, 138–142, 164, 169
Savage-Rumbaugh, Sue 94, 167
Schooler, Jonathan 3, 162, 163, 169
Shereshevskii, Solomon 25–26, 28
Smith, David 64, 165
Stickgold, Robert 123, 168
stories viii, 2, 4–5, 8, 20, 27, 30, 32–33, 63, 67, 71, 73, 77, 84, 86–107, 110–111, 116, 120–122, 125, 133, 146–148
children’s stories 40, 63, 77, 84, 88–89, 106, 120–122, 125
crime fiction 102–10
epics 101, 131–133:
and hunting 86, 89–90
Suddendorf, Thomas ix, 40, 43, 63, 83n, 164, 165, 166
Sugiyama, Michelle 89, 167
synaesthe
sia 25–26
Tammett, Daniel 25–27, 164
‘The Knowledge’ 57
theory of mind 71–84, 106
in animals 81–83
and autism 74–77
in children 71–71, 84
Thurber, James 2, 66
Tomasello, Michael 80, 166
Trivers, Robert 33, 164
Tulving, Endel ix, 38, 165
Turton, David 90, 168
Twain, Mark 4, 28, 116
von Hippel, William 31, 164
Wamsley, Erin 123, 168
Wearing, Deborah 38, 34, 165
Wearing, Clive 21, 38, 43, 54
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1 In German, I’m told, ‘wandern’ simply means ‘to walk’, without any suggestion of deviating from the right path. Germany has a fine literary and artistic tradition, indicating that German minds can also wander in the sense intended in this book.
2 Actually, this quote seems to come from the translation of a Japanese book called The Teaching of Buddha, and placed in hotel rooms as a Buddhist alternative to the Gideon Bible. Don’t worry too much about it.
1 George Bernard Shaw once remarked: ‘England and America are two countries separated by the same language.’
1 In a search of the Web of Science, I could find nothing on what the calcar avis might actually do, although I did learn of a species of plankton known as Pseudosolenia calcar-avis, which is perhaps lurking to tip us humans from our pedestal.
1 An essay published in The Guardian, 15 September 2001.
2 No, it wasn’t Shakespeare. The quote is from Scott’s epic poem Marmion.
3 Well, I’ve never actually met one. It’s the name that I really like.
4 In an article published in 1997, Thomas Suddendorf and I proposed that theory of mind drew on the same mechanisms as mental time travel, and argued that both were unique to humans. My own view now is that there is greater continuity between species than I thought at the time. For a persisting view that humans are indeed unique in these respects, see Suddendorf’s excellent new book The Gap: The Science of What Separates Us from Other Animals (New York: Basic Books, 2013).
1 And indeed have done in my 2002 book From Hand to Mouth: The Origins of Language (Princeton: Princeton University Press), which has since appeared in paperback (2003) and been translated into Turkish (2003), Italian (2008) and Japanese (2009).
2 Not Hawaii, as some have guessed. Māori settlers probably sailed from somewhere in central-east Polynesia.
3 Her initials stand for the more lady-like ‘Victoria Iphigenia’.
4 From an interview with the New Zealand Listener of 3 November 2012.
5 She has herself acknowledged her past, in public interviews.
1 Older readers may recognise the line from the song ‘Row, Row, Row Your Boat’, first published in 1852. But is anyone that old?
1 We may confidently expect another revival in the 2060s and 2070s.
2 I do not mean to disparage Edwards’ teaching techniques, which many have no doubt found to be effective. Her reference to the right brain, though, may be largely superfluous.
3 Originally published under the pseudonym ‘Victoria Lucas’.
4 Also attributed to the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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