Brain bugs : how the brain's flaws shape our lives /
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-a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
W.W. Norton,
[2011]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 310 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-295) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780393076028 (hbk.) 0393076024 (hbk.) |