Buonomano Dean. Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives

W. W. Norton & Company, 2011. — 701 р. — ISBN: 978-0-393-08195-4Neuroscientist Dean Buonomano illuminates the causes and consequences of the brain's imperfections in terms of its innermost workings and its evolutionary purposes. He then examines how our brains function--and malfunction--in the digital, predator-free, information-saturated, special-effects-addled world we have built for ourselves.
Abstract: "Excellent... [Buonomano] reveals the intricate limitations and blessings of the most complex device in the known universe."-The Atlantic