Brain Fiction

Brain Fiction
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 316
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ISBN-10 : 0262083388
ISBN-13 : 9780262083386
Rating : 4/5 (386 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Brain Fiction by : William Hirstein

Download or read book Brain Fiction written by William Hirstein and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phenomenon of confabulation--the tendency to construct plausible-sounding but false answers and believe that they are true--and what it can tell us about the human mind and human nature.


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