Brain bugs:how the brain's flaws shape our lives
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W.W. Norton,
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Publisher Address: | New York |
Publication Dates: | c2011. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | 310 p.: ill. ; 25 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780393076028 (hbk.) 0393076024 9780393342222 |
Index Number: | R338 |
CLC: | R338 |
Call Number: | R338/B944 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-295) and index. The memory web -- Memory upgrade needed -- Brain crashes -- Temporal distortions -- Fear factor -- Unreasonable reasoning -- The advertising bug -- The supernatural bug -- Debugging. Neuroscientist Dean Buonomano illuminates the causes and consequences of the brain's imperfections in terms of its innermost workings and its evolutionary purposes. He then examines how our brains function--and malfunction--in the digital, predator-free, information-saturated, special-effects-addled world we have built for ourselves. |