Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain

The first one entitled How Emotions Are Made and the Second Book, which includes information about emotions but extends beyond that, entitled Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain.

Lisa's at Northeastern University she runs a big lab there she's a world expert in emotions she's written two books that are really wonderful one is how emotions are made which was her first book the second one is seven and a half facts about the brain

The Secret Life of the Brain, and Seven and a Half Lessons about the Brain.

She's also written several books including How Emotions Are Made and 7.5 Lessons About the Brain.

Dr. Barrett has written several books including how emotions are made, the secret life of the brain, and seven and a half lessons about the brain.

So it's like the equivalent of adding 104 calories which I think I talk about this in seven and a half lessons about the brain...

Her new book, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain, is out now.

I have a whole chapter on how emotions are used in the law in my first book how emotions are made it's full of fascinating little tidbits that will entertain your friends at dinner parties when we have dinner parties again but also slightly horrify you when you realize the ways in which mythical notions about rationality and emotion are kind of weaved into our legal system.

I did write about all of this in the New York Times a couple of years ago and I just want to make it clear when I'm saying this that I'm not saying that this is a different explanation than racism and I'm also not saying that this is a form of racism I'm just speaking as a neuroscientist that seeing a gun where there is no gun is perfectly explainable under many conditions just based on understanding how your brain predicts and creates your experience.

Dr Feldman Barrett's book also covers things like how our brain sees things when we have different predictions and expectations of the brain is wired so that seeing is influenced by feeling so if you're scared you will literally see the world differently than if you are calm which explains a lot of the things we thought we saw as kids or what things are kids think they see in the dark.

big thanks to Dr Lisa Feldman Barrett's seven and a half lessons about the brain is her latest book she's got a couple books that are all interesting reads links to those will be in the show notes please do use our website links if you buy books or anything else from guests here on the show that does help support the show

Dan Dinnett wrote about this in one of his seven thousand books that I think he's published.

Her new book, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain, is out now.

I'd love to talk about how brains develop in newborns...your book when we were talking about tuning and pruning the newborn brain that's interesting to me.

I read in your book that relating to and understanding people who look or act different than us is more taxing on our brains...

The analogy that I use in the book both books actually...

I did write about all of this in the New York Times a couple of years ago...