Borges and memory
Subtitle: a trip through the human brain
By: Rodrigo Quian Quiroga ; translated by Juan Pablo Fernández ; foreword by María Kodama
Publisher: MIT Press; The MIT Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780262018210
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Research; Brain; Case studies; Memory; Popular works; Memory disorders; Memory in literature
Work titles: Borges y la memoria
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Funes and other cases of extraordinary memory; title: The library of babel; title: The man who could not forget; title: Living in the past; title: Subtleties of memory; title: Where do memories reside?; title: Prodigious minds; title: The delicate balance between remembering and forgetting; title: Perception and memory; title: Neurophysiology of vision; title: The Jennifer Aniston neuron; title: Keys to thought.