Brain bugs : how the brain's flaws shape our lives / Dean Buonomano.

By: Buonomano, DeanMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; London : W.W. Norton, 2012Description: 310 pages ; 22 cmISBN: 9780393342222Subject(s): Brain -- Physiology | Memory -- Physiological aspects | Brain -- Physiology | Memory -- Physiological aspects | Hirnfunktion | Psychologie | WahrnehmungstäuschungDDC classification: 612.82 LOC classification: QP376 | .B86 2012
Contents:
The memory web -- Memory upgrade needed -- Brain crashes -- Temporal distortions -- Fear factor -- Unreasonable reasoning -- The advertising bug -- The supernatural bug -- Debugging.
Summary: 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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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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