Title:
Brain bugs : how the brain's flaws shape our lives / Dean Buonomano.
Author:
Buonomano, Dean.
Publication Information:
New York : W.W. Norton, c2011.
Call Number:
QP376 .B86 2011
Abstract:
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.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780393076028
Physical Description:
310 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents:
The memory web -- Memory upgrade needed -- Brain crashes -- Temporal distortions -- Fear factor -- Unreasonable reasoning -- The advertising bug -- The supernatural bug -- Debugging.
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