Borges and Memory: Encounters with the Human Brain
Quiroga, Rodrigo Quian / Kodama, María / Fernández, Juan Pablo
Rodrigo Quian Quiroga found a fantastically precise interpretation of his research findings in a story written by the great Argentinian fabulist Jorge Luis Borges fifty years earlier. Quian Quiroga studies the workings of the brain--in particular how memory works--one of the most complex and elusive mysteries of science. He and his fellow neuroscientists have at their disposal sophisticated imaging equipment and access to information not avail...