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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788532003321

Autore

Quian Quiroga Rodrigo

Titolo

Borges and memory : encounters with the human brain / / Rodrigo Quian Quiroga ; translated by Juan Pablo Fernández ; foreword by María Kodama

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2012

©2012

ISBN

0-262-30495-3

1-283-62981-X

0-262-30587-9

9786613942265

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Disciplina

612.8/233

Soggetti

Memory - Physiological aspects

Brain - Research

Memory disorders

Memory in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

Discusses the science of memory and the interpretation of memory in the novels of Jorge Luis Borges and earlier literatures.