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Author Berthoz, Alain, author

Title The vicarious brain, creator of worlds / Alain Berthoz ; translated by Giselle Weiss
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 215 pages)
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
Notes Translated from the French
"First published as La Vicariance: Le cerveau créateur de mondes (c) Odile Jacob, 2013"--Title page verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Adaptability (Psychology)
Adjustment (Psychology)
Mind and reality.
Brain.
Identity (Psychology)
Avatars (Virtual reality)
brains.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology.
SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science.
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience
Adaptability (Psychology)
Adjustment (Psychology)
Avatars (Virtual reality)
Brain
Identity (Psychology)
Mind and reality
Form Electronic book
Author Weiss, Giselle, translator
ISBN 9780674972834
067497283X
Other Titles Vicariance. English