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

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-a...

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Autor principal: Buonomano, Dean
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: New York : W.W. Norton, c2011.
Edición:1st ed.
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260 |a New York :  |b W.W. Norton,  |c c2011. 
300 |a 310 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 25 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-295) and index. 
505 0 |a Memory web -- Memory upgrade needed -- Brain crashes -- Temporal distortions -- Fear factor -- Unreasonable reasoning -- The advertising bug -- The supernatural bug -- Debugging. 
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