Research Catalog

Title

The vicarious brain, creator of worlds / Alain Berthoz ; translated by Giselle Weiss.

Author

Berthoz, A.

Publication

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.

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Additional Authors

Weiss, Giselle

Description

215 pages; 21 cm

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.--

Uniform Title

Vicariance English

Alternative Title

Vicariance

Subject

• Adaptability (Psychology)
• Adjustment (Psychology)
• Mind and reality
• Brain
• Identity (Psychology)
• Avatars (Virtual reality)
• Mind and reality
• Brain > physiology
• Adaptation, Psychological > physiology
• Social Adjustment
• Social Identification
• User-Computer Interface
• Biological Evolution
• Adaptation, Psychological
• Emotional Adjustment

Note

• "First published as La Vicariance: Le cerveau créateur de mondes (c) Odile Jacob, 2013."--Title page verso

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9780674088955
• 0674088956

LCCN

^^2016022571

OCLC

946907407

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library