Borges and memory : encounters with the human brain
General Information
- Uniform Title
- Borges y la memoria.
- Author/Creator
- Quian Quiroga, Rodrigo.
- Language
- English.
- Published
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2012.
- Physical Description
- ix, 213 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Subjects
- Subject
- Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 > Criticism and interpretation.
- Memory > Physiological aspects > Popular works.
- Brain > Research > Popular works.
- Memory disorders > Case studies.
- Memory in literature.
Bibliographic Information
- Responsibility
- Rodrigo Quian Quiroga ; translated by Juan Pablo Fernández ; foreword by María Kodama.
- Note
- Translated from Spanish.
- Content
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780262018210
- 0262018217
Holdings
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Book | OSA Archivum Library | Reference collection | 612.8/233 QUI | | Reference | - |
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