The Human Mind- Robert Winston

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 The Human Mind: and how to make the most of it

  
   This novel, written by Robert Winston and first published in 2003, has to be mentioned as a part of my EPQ. It was an ongoing side project which I used to further my knowledge of neuroscience. The discipline of neuroscience is greatly involved with the studies of memory and more specifically false memories yet I began my EPQ with an extremely limited understanding of the topic since I'd never studied the science before within school. Though this isn't directly linked to my topic, I thought it was an important objective to have a better basis understanding of neuroscience as otherwise, I would be trying to discuss a topic within this subject without having any foundations to build upon. 

   
   I have just finished the novel and am currently almost concluding my dissertation. I can definitely see an improvement in my vocabulary throughout due to my reading of this book as it has introduced a great deal of specialist lexicon. This was especially helpful in the first section of my dissertation when it came to discussing the scientific aspects of the formation of false memories and I referenced the novel (Chapter 2's Neurotransmitter section) when discussing memory encoding. Overall, it was incredibly informative and a very good read. 
   

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