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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Berthoz, A., author.     Subjects     Adaptability (Psychology)     Adjustment (Psychology)     Mind and reality.     Brain.     Identity (Psychology)     Avatars (Virtual reality)     Browse Catalog     by author:      Berthoz, A., author.       by title:      The vicarious brain,...         MARC Display

The vicarious brain, creator of worlds / Alain Berthoz ; translated by Giselle Weiss. by Berthoz, A., author. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017. Subjects Adaptability (Psychology)   Adjustment (Psychology)   Mind and reality.   Brain.   Identity (Psychology)   Avatars (Virtual reality) ISBN:  9780674088955 (alk. paper) : 0674088956 (alk. paper) Description:  viii, 215 pages ; 21 cm Contents:  Prologue -- Introduction -- Part I. The vicarious act -- 1. The brain as a problem-solver -- 2. Perceiving and acting -- 3. The personal body, self, and identity -- 4. Vicariance and changing perspective -- Part II. Ontogenesis and plasticity -- 5. The stages of vicariance -- 6. Vicariance and brain plasticity -- Part III. Vicariance and sharing emotions -- 7. Sympathy and empathy -- 8. Vicarious emotion -- Part IV. Education -- 9. Vicarious learning -- Epilogue. Requests:  0 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.--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 153 Be Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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