The vicarious brain, creator of worlds / Alain Berthoz ; translated by Giselle Weiss.

By:

Berthoz, Alain [author.]

Contributor(s):

Weiss, Giselle [translator.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780674972834
067497283X

Uniform titles:

Vicariance. English

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Vicarious brain, creator of worlds.DDC classification:

153 23

LOC classification:

BF335 .B4713 2017eb

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Contents:

The brain as a problem-solver -- Perceiving and acting -- The personal body, self, and identity -- Vicariance and changing perspective -- The stages of vicariance -- Vicariance and brain plasticity -- Sympathy and empathy -- Vicarious emotion -- Vicarious learning.

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.-- Provided by publisher.

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Translated from the French.

"First published as La Vicariance: Le cerveau créateur de mondes (c) Odile Jacob, 2013"--Title page verso.

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.-- Provided by publisher.