Brain bugs
Subtitle: how the brain's flaws shape our lives
By: Dean Buonomano
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.; W.W. Norton
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780393076028
Subjects: Brain; Memory; Physiology; Physiological aspects
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The memory web; title: Memory upgrade needed; title: Brain crashes; title: Temporal distortions; title: Fear factor; title: Unreasonable reasoning; title: The advertising bug; title: The supernatural bug; title: Debugging.