Borges and memory : encounters with the human brain / Rodrigo Quian Quiroga ; translated by Juan Pablo Fernández ; foreword by María Kodama.

Borges y la memoria. English

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2012], ©2012.

ix, 213 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Translated from Spanish.

Funes and other cases of extraordinary memory -- The library of Babel -- The man who could not forget -- Living in the past -- Subtleties of memory -- Where do memories reside? -- Prodigious minds -- The delicate balance between remembering and forgetting -- Perception and memory -- Neurophysiology of vision -- The Jennifer Aniston neuron -- Keys to thought.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In English; translated from Spanish.