Brain Bugs : : how the Brain's Flaws Shape our Lives

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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.

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PUBLISHED
New York : W.W. Norton, c2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: 310 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780393076028
0393076024

SUBJECTS
Brain -- Physiology.
Memory -- Physiological aspects.