Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time Contributor(s): Buonomano, Dean (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393355608 ISBN-13: 9780393355604 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $17.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2018 |
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BISAC Categories: - Science | Life Sciences - Neuroscience - Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition - Psychology | Cognitive Neuroscience & Cognitive Neuropsychology |
Dewey: 612.82 |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.4" W x 8.1" (0.55 lbs) 304 pages |
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Publisher Description: In Your Brain Is a Time Machine, leading neuroscientist Dean Buonomano embarks on an immensely engaging exploration of how time works inside the brain (Barbara Kiser, Nature). The human brain, he argues, is a complex system that not only tells time, but creates it; it constructs our sense of chronological movement and enables mental time travel--simulations of future and past events. These functions are essential not only to our daily lives but to the evolution of the human race: without the ability to anticipate the future, mankind would never have crafted tools or invented agriculture. This virtuosic work of popular science will lead you to a revelation as strange as it is true: your brain is, at its core, a time machine. |
Contributor Bio(s): Buonomano, Dean: - Dean Buonomano is a professor of neurobiology and psychology at UCLA and a leading theorist on the neuroscience of time. His previous book, Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives, was a Wall Street Journal bestseller. |