Copyright © 2017 by Rodrigo Quian Quiroga

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Originally published in Spanish as Qué es la memoria in 2014 by Editorial Paidós. Copyright © 2014 by Rodrigo Quian Quiroga.

Translation by Juan Pablo Fernández

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Quian Quiroga, Rodrigo, author.

Title: The forgetting machine : memory, perception, and the “Jennifer Aniston neuron” / Rodrigo Quian Quiroga.

Other titles: Que es la memoria. English

Description: Dallas, TX : BenBella Books, Inc., [2017] | Translation of: Que es la memoria / Rodrigo Quian Quiroga. Editorial Paidos, 2014. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017025074 (print) | LCCN 2017025866 (ebook) | ISBN 9781944648558 (electronic) | ISBN 9781944648541 (trade paper : alk. paper)

Subjects: | MESH: Memory—physiology | Perception | Brain—physiology | Nervous System Physiological Phenomena

Classification: LCC QP406 (ebook) | LCC QP406 (print) | NLM WL 337 | DDC 612.8/23312— dc23

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