The Vicarious Brain, Creator of Worlds / / Alain Berthoz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Berthoz, Alain,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (190 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; 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 Emotions --; Part IV: Education --; 9. Vicarious Learning --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674972834; 9783110543315
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674972834
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Alain Berthoz.

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.