The Vicarious Brain, Creator of Worlds

Groping around a familiar room in the dark, or learning to read again after a traumatic brain injury; navigating a virtual landscape through an avatar, or envisioning a scene through the eyes of a character-all of these are expressions of one fundamental property of life, Alain Berthoz argues. They...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alain Berthoz
Other Authors: Translated by Giselle Weiss
Format: Printed Book
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts Harvard University Press 2017
Subjects:
Adaptability (Psychology) Adjustment (Psychology) Mind and reality. View all subjects
Table of 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.

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