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

  • Buonomano, Dean.
Date:
[2011], ©2011
  • Books

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Description

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.

Publication/Creation

New York ; London : W.W. Norton, [2011], ©2011.

Physical description

310 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-295) and index.

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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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    Medical Collection
    WL300 2011B94b
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780393076028
  • 0393076024