Borges and Memory: Encounters with the Human Brain

by Rodrigo Quian Quiroga

A scientist's exploration of the working of memory begins with a story by Borges about a man who could not forget.

Imagine the astonishment felt by neuroscientist Rodrigo Quian Quiroga when he found a fantastically precise interpretation of his research findings in a story written by the great Argentinian fabulist Jorge Luis Borges fifty years earlier. Quian Quiroga studies the workings of the brain--in particular how memory works--one...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262018217
• ISBN13: 9780262018210
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher