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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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