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Author Quian Quiroga, Rodrigo, author.

Title Borges and memory : encounters with the human brain / Rodrigo Quian Quiroga ; translated by Juan Pablo Fernández ; foreword by María Kodama.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 213 pages) : illustrations
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Contents Funes and other cases of extraordinary memory -- The library of babel -- The man who could not forget -- Living in the past -- Subtleties of memory -- Where do memories reside? -- Prodigious minds -- The delicate balance between remembering and forgetting -- Perception and memory -- Neurophysiology of vision -- The Jennifer Aniston neuron -- Keys to thought.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Discusses the science of memory and the interpretation of memory in the novels of Jorge Luis Borges and earlier literatures.
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Subject Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986.
Criticism and interpretation.
Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Memory -- Physiological aspects -- Popular works.
Memory -- Physiological aspects.
Genre/Form Popular works.
Subject Brain -- Research -- Popular works.
Brain -- Research.
Memory disorders -- Case studies.
Memory disorders.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Memory in literature.
Memory in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Case studies.
Added Author Fernández, Juan Pablo, translator.
Added Title Borges y la memoria. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2012013847
Other Form: Print version: Quian Quiroga, Rodrigo. Borges y la memoria. English. Borges and memory. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2012 9780262018210 (DLC) 2012008689 (OCoLC)778857695
ISBN 9780262305877 (electronic book)
0262305879 (electronic book)
9780262018210 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0262018217 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)