Brains : how they seem to work

One of the field's leading scientists takes readers on a guided tour through the recent history of neuroscience and offers a notion as to where neuroscience may well be headed next

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Purves, Dale (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Upper Saddle River, New Jersey : FT Press Science , c2010
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300 |a xii, 304 p. :   |b ill.(some col.) ;   |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-280) and index 
505 0 |a 1. Neuroscience circa 1960 -- 2. Neurobiology at Harvard -- 3. Biophysics at university college -- 4. Nerve cells versus brain systems -- 5. Neural development -- 6. Exploring brain systems -- 7. The visual system: Hubel and Wiesel redux -- 8. Visual perception -- 9. Perceiving color -- 10. The organization of perceptual qualities -- 10. Perceiving geometry -- 12. Perceiving motion -- 13. How brains seem to work 
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