The accidental mind /
"A guide to the strange and often illogal world of neural function, 'The accidendal mind' shows how the brain is not an optimized, general-purpose problem-solving machine, but rather a weird agglomeration of ad-hoc solutions that have been piled on through millions of years of evoluti...
| Основен автор: | Linden, David J., 1961- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2007.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=516926 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Accidental mind. |
Съдържание:
- Prologue : Brain, explained
- The inelegant design of the brain
- Building a brain with yesterday's parts
- Some assembly required
- Sensation and emotion
- Learning, memory, and human individuality
- Love and sex
- Sleeping and dreaming
- The religious impulse
- The unintelligent design of the brain
- Epilogue : That middle thing.