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• Title:Brain bugs : how the brain's flaws shape our lives / Dean Buonomano.
  
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• Variant Title:How the brain's flaws shape our lives
  
• Author/Creator:Buonomano, Dean.
  
• Published/Created:New York : W.W. Norton, ©2011.
  

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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WL300 .B944 2011
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WL300 .B944 2011
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Brain--Physiology.
  Memory--Physiological aspects.
  
• Medical Subjects: Brain--physiology.
  
• Edition:1st ed.
  
• Description:310 pages : ill ; 25 cm.
  
• Summary:Neuroscientist Dean Buonomano illuminates the causes and consequences of the brain's imperfections in terms of its innermost workings and its evolutionary purposes. He then examines how our brains function--and malfunction--in the digital, predator-free, information-saturated, special-effects-addled world we have built for ourselves.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-295) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780393076028 (hbk.)
  0393076024 (hbk.)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Memory Web
  2. Memory Upgrade Needed
  3. Brain Crashes
  4. Temporal Distortions
  5. Fear Factor
  6. Unreasonable Reasoning
  7. Advertising Bug
  8. Supernatural Bug
  9. Debugging.