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.
Author: Dean Buonomano
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 04/17/2018
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780393355604
ISBN10: 0393355608
BISAC Categories:
- Science | Life Sciences | Neuroscience
- Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
- Psychology | Cognitive Neuroscience & Cognitive Neuropsychology