How People Think

The brain has 23 billion neurons. That’s a lot of capacity for mental processing. So what’s going on in there?

Understanding how people think is crucial if you’re going to design for them. Just as there are visual illusions, there are also thinking illusions. This chapter describes some of the interesting things the brain does as it makes sense of the world.

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