The Vicarious Brain, Creator of Worlds:

Groping around a familiar room in the dark, relearning to read after a brain injury, navigating a virtual landscape through an avatar: all are expressions of vicariance-when the brain substitutes one process or function for another. Alain Berthoz shows that this capacity allows humans to think creat...

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Main Author: Berthoz, Alain (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press [2017]
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Summary:Groping around a familiar room in the dark, relearning to read after a brain injury, navigating a virtual landscape through an avatar: all are expressions of vicariance-when the brain substitutes one process or function for another. Alain Berthoz shows that this capacity allows humans to think creatively in an increasingly complex world
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021)
Physical Description:1 online resource (190 pages)
ISBN:9780674972834
DOI:10.4159/9780674972834

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