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Author Buonomano, Dean.

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

Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton, [2011]
©2011

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  QP376 .B86 2011    Available  ---
Edition 1st ed.
Description 310 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
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.
Brain -- Physiology.
Memory -- Physiological aspects.
Memory -- Physiological aspects.
Added Title How the brain's flaws shape our lives
ISBN 9780393076028 hardback
0393076024 hardback