Buonomano, Dean.

Brain bugs : how the brain's flaws shape our lives / Dean Buonomano. - New York ; London : W.W. Norton, 2012. - 310 pages ; 22 cm

Originally published: 2011.

Includes bibliographical references 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.

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GBB228535 bnb

016053155 Uk


Brain--Physiology.
Memory--Physiological aspects.
Brain--Physiology.
Memory--Physiological aspects.
Hirnfunktion.
Psychologie.
Wahrnehmungstäuschung.

QP376 / .B86 2012

612.82