Brain bugs: how the brain's flaws shape our lives
Buonomano, Dean
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.;The memory web -- Memory upgrade needed -- Brain crashes -- Temporal distortions -- Fear factor -- Unreasonable reasoning -- The advertising bug -- The supernatural bug -- Debugging.
Година:
2011
Издание:
1st ed
Издателство:
W. W. Norton & Company
Език:
english
Страници:
310
ISBN 10:
0393342220
ISBN 13:
9780393342222
Файл:
EPUB, 959 KB
IPFS:
,
english, 2011