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
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Upper Saddle River, New Jersey :
FT Press Science ,
c2010
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Table of Contents:
- 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