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Author Quian Quiroga, Rodrigo, author.

Title Borges and memory : encounters with the human brain / Rodrigo Quian Quiroga ; translated by Juan Pablo Fernández ; foreword by María Kodama
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2012
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 213 pages) : illustrations
Contents Funes and other cases of extraordinary memory -- The library of babel -- The man who could not forget -- Living in the past -- Subtleties of memory -- Where do memories reside? -- Prodigious minds -- The delicate balance between remembering and forgetting -- Perception and memory -- Neurophysiology of vision -- The Jennifer Aniston neuron -- Keys to thought
Summary Discusses the science of memory and the interpretation of memory in the novels of Jorge Luis Borges and earlier literatures
Analysis NEUROSCIENCE/General
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Translated from Spanish
Subject Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986
Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 fast
Subject Memory -- Physiological aspects -- Popular works
Brain -- Research -- Popular works
Memory disorders -- Case studies
Memory in literature.
SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science.
Brain -- Research
Memory disorders
Memory in literature
Memory -- Physiological aspects
Genre/Form Case studies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Popular works
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Form Electronic book
Author Fernández, Juan Pablo, translator.
LC no. 2012008689
ISBN 9780262305877
0262305879
Other Titles Borges y la memoria. English