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Borges and Memory : Encounters with the Human Brain.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (224 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262305877
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Borges and MemoryDDC classification:
  • 612.8233
LOC classification:
  • QP406 -- .Q53 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. FUNES AND OTHER CASES OF EXTRAORDINARY MEMORY -- 2. THE LIBRARY OF BABEL -- 3. THE MAN WHO COULD NOT FORGET -- 4. LIVING IN THE PAST -- 5. SUBTLETIES OF MEMORY -- 6. WHERE DO MEMORIES RESIDE? -- 7. PRODIGIOUS MINDS -- 8. THE DELICATE BALANCE BETWEEN REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING -- 9. PERCEPTION AND MEMORY -- 10. NEUROPHYSIOLOGY OF VISION -- 11. THE JENNIFER ANISTON NEURON -- 12. KEYS TO THOUGHT -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX.
Summary: A scientist's exploration of the working of memory begins with a story by Borges about a man who could not forget.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. FUNES AND OTHER CASES OF EXTRAORDINARY MEMORY -- 2. THE LIBRARY OF BABEL -- 3. THE MAN WHO COULD NOT FORGET -- 4. LIVING IN THE PAST -- 5. SUBTLETIES OF MEMORY -- 6. WHERE DO MEMORIES RESIDE? -- 7. PRODIGIOUS MINDS -- 8. THE DELICATE BALANCE BETWEEN REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING -- 9. PERCEPTION AND MEMORY -- 10. NEUROPHYSIOLOGY OF VISION -- 11. THE JENNIFER ANISTON NEURON -- 12. KEYS TO THOUGHT -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX.

A scientist's exploration of the working of memory begins with a story by Borges about a man who could not forget.

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