Borges and memory : encounters with the human brain / / Rodrigo Quian Quiroga ; translated by Juan Pablo Fernandez ; foreword by Maria Kodama
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| Autore: |
Quian Quiroga Rodrigo
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| Titolo: |
Borges and memory : encounters with the human brain / / Rodrigo Quian Quiroga ; translated by Juan Pablo Fernandez ; foreword by Maria Kodama
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2012 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 612.8/233 |
| Soggetto topico: | Memory - Physiological aspects |
| Brain - Research | |
| Memory disorders | |
| Memory in literature | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Borges and memory |
| ISBN: | 0-262-30495-3 |
| 1-283-62981-X | |
| 0-262-30587-9 | |
| 9786613942265 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910828767203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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