| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
310 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-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. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Brain -- Physiology.
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Memory -- Physiological aspects.
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| Added Title |
How the brain's flaws shape our lives |
| ISBN |
9780393076028 hardback |
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0393076024 hardback |
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