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In the palaces of memory : how we build the worlds inside our heads / George Johnson.
LIBRA - Special QP406 .J64 1992
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, George, 1952 January 20-
- Series:
- Vintage book
- A Vintage book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Memory.
- Neuropsychology.
- Neurology.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 255 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- First Vintage books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 1992.
- Summary:
- A distillation of three researchers' inquiries into the processes that enable us to recognize a face that has aged ten years or remember a melody for decades.
- Contents:
- PREFACE
- Invisible Palaces
- PRELUDE
- The Tower in the Jungle
- PART ONE
- Mucking Around in the Wetware
- A Dark Continent
- Looking for Engrams
- The Brain's Volume Controls
- Early Obsessions
- Growing New Wires
- Strengthening Connections
- An Exotic Phenomenon
- The Porcupine Effect
- Sharing a Hallucination
- Artificial Amnesia
- A Hostile Replication
- The King of the Hill
- Off-the-Shelf Enzymes
- Religious Feuds
- "A Beautiful Little Switch"
- Hebb's Return
- Intuition and Ambiguity
- FIRST INTERLUDE
- A Brain in a Box
- PART TWO
- The Memory Machine
- Theorizing About Theorizing
- Atomic Choreography
- The Structures of Experience
- Magnets and Brain Cells
- Universal Machines
- Toward a Mushier Computer
- The Exorcists
- Systems of Symbols
- A Model of Memory
- Animal Logic
- Resonance and Reality
- Something Deeply Hidden
- Knowledge Engineering
- Another Change in Fashion
- The Man in the Pineapple Shirt
- The Price of an Idea
- SECOND INTERLUDE
- "God Is a Tinkerer"
- PART THREE
- The End of Philosophy
- Spooky Stuff
- Philosophy's Hinterlands
- Celestial Navigation
- Rocky Waters
- What a Number Is
- FINAL REFLECTIONS.
- Notes:
- Originally published in hardcover by A. Knopf, New York, 1991.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-247) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0679737596
- 9780679737599
- OCLC:
- 24246931
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