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Brain, vision, memory : tales in the history of neuroscience

Author: Charles G Gross
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1998.
Edition/Format:   Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Charles G. Gross is an experimental neuroscientist who specializes in brain mechanisms in vision. He is also fascinated by the history of his field. In these tales describing the growth of knowledge about the brain from the early Egyptians and Greeks to the present time, he attempts to answer the question of how the discipline of neuroscience evolved into its modern incarnation through the twists and turns of
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Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung
History
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Charles G Gross
ISBN: 026207186X 9780262071864 0262571358 9780262571357 0585024812 9780585024813
OCLC Number: 36877412
Notes: "A Bradford book."
Description: xviii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents: From Imhotep to Hubel and Weisel: the story of visual cortex. Ancient Egyptian surgery and medicine ; Greek philosopher-scientists and the beginning of brain science ; The medieval cell doctrine of brain function ; The rebirth of brain science ; The beginning of the modern era of cortical localization ; The discovery of a visual center in the cerebral cortex --
Leonardo da Vinci on the brain and eye --
Emanuel Swedenborg: a neuroscientist before his time --
The hippocampus minor and man's place in nature: a case study in the social construction of neuroanatomy --
Beyond striate cortex: how large portions of the temporal and parietal cortex became visual areas.
Responsibility: Charles G. Gross.

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