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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 Visualizza persona
Titolo: Borges and memory : encounters with the human brain / / Rodrigo Quian Quiroga ; translated by Juan Pablo Fernandez ; foreword by Maria Kodama Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
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
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