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 crea...

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1. Verfasser: Berthoz, Alain (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Weiss, Giselle (ÜbersetzerIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
French
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2017]
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Zusammenfassung: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.--
Beschreibung:Translated from the French.
"First published as La Vicariance: Le cerveau créateur de mondes (c) Odile Jacob, 2013"--Title page verso.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (viii, 215 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780674972834
067497283X

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