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.
9780393342222
GBB228535 bnb
016053155 Uk
Brain--Physiology.
Memory--Physiological aspects.
Brain--Physiology.
Memory--Physiological aspects.
Hirnfunktion.
Psychologie.
Wahrnehmungstäuschung.
QP376 / .B86 2012
612.82
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.
9780393342222
GBB228535 bnb
016053155 Uk
Brain--Physiology.
Memory--Physiological aspects.
Brain--Physiology.
Memory--Physiological aspects.
Hirnfunktion.
Psychologie.
Wahrnehmungstäuschung.
QP376 / .B86 2012
612.82