Brain bugs : how the brain's flaws shape our lives
(2011)
By:
Buonomano, Dean
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
612.82/BUONOMANO,D
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : W.W. Norton, [2011]
©2011
©2011
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
310 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780393076028 (hbk.), 0393076024 (hbk.), 0393076024 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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