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The Mind's Past

ISBN: 9780520224865 | 0520224868
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Publisher: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Pub. Date: 9/1/2000

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SummaryTable of Contents
Why does the human brain insist on interpreting the world and constructing a narrative? In this ground-breaking work, Michael S. Gazzaniga, one of the world's foremost cognitive neuroscientists, shows how our mind and brain accomplish the amazing feat of constructing our past--a process clearly fraught with errors of perception, memory, and judgment. By showing that the specific systems built into our brain do their work automatically and largely outside of our conscious awareness, Gazzaniga calls into question our everyday notions of self and ... MORE
Prefacexi
The Fictional Self
1(28)
Brain Construction
29(34)
... MOREThe Brain Knows Before You Do
63(22)
Seeing Is Believing
85(18)
The Shadow Knows
103(20)
Real Memories, Phony Memories
123(28)
The Value of Interpreting the Past
151(26)
Bibliography177(12)
Index189


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