The vicarious brain, creator of worlds / Alain Berthoz ; translated by Giselle Weiss.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017Description: viii, 215 pages ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780674088955; 0674088956Uniform titles: Vicariance. English Subject(s): Adaptability (Psychology) | Adjustment (Psychology) | Mind and reality | Brain | Identity (Psychology) | Avatars (Virtual reality) | 77.31 cognition | Adaptability (Psychology) | Adjustment (Psychology) | Avatars (Virtual reality) | Brain | Identity (Psychology) | Mind and reality | Anpassung | Hirnfunktion | Kognitiver Prozess | Kreativität | Neuronale Plastizität | Psychologie | Brain -- physiology | Adaptation, Psychological -- physiology | Social Adjustment | Social Identification | User-Computer Interface | Biological EvolutionDDC classification: 153 LOC classification: BF335 | .B4713 2017| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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"First published as La Vicariance: Le cerveau créateur de mondes (c) Odile Jacob, 2013"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue -- Introduction -- Part I. The vicarious act -- 1. The brain as a problem-solver -- 2. Perceiving and acting -- 3. The personal body, self, and identity -- 4. Vicariance and changing perspective -- Part II. Ontogenesis and plasticity -- 5. The stages of vicariance -- 6. Vicariance and brain plasticity -- Part III. Vicariance and sharing emotions -- 7. Sympathy and empathy -- 8. Vicarious emotion -- Part IV. Education -- 9. Vicarious learning -- Epilogue.
Groping around a familiar room in the dark, relearning to read after a brain injury, navigating a virtual landscape through an avatar: all are expressions of vicariance--when the brain substitutes one process or function for another. Alain Berthoz shows that this capacity allows humans to think creatively in an increasingly complex world.-- Provided by publisher.
Translated from the French.
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