Brain, vision, memory : tales in the history of neuroscience / Charles G. Gross.
1998
QP353 .G76 1998eb
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Title
Brain, vision, memory : tales in the history of neuroscience / Charles G. Gross.
Author
ISBN
0585024812 (electronic bk.)
9780585024813 (electronic bk.)
9780262274388 (electronic bk.)
0262274388 (electronic bk.)
9780262071864 (alk. paper)
026207186X (alk. paper)
0262571358
9780262571357
026207186X
9780585024813 (electronic bk.)
9780262274388 (electronic bk.)
0262274388 (electronic bk.)
9780262071864 (alk. paper)
026207186X (alk. paper)
0262571358
9780262571357
026207186X
Imprint
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1998.
Copyright
©1998
Language
English
Language Note
English.
Description
1 online resource (xviii, 255 pages) : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers
9780585024813
Call Number
QP353 .G76 1998eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)42329100
Summary
In these engaging tales describing the growth of knowledge about the brainâ__from the early Egyptians and Greeks to the Dark Ages and the Renaissance to the present timeâ__Gross attempts to answer the question of how the discipline of neuroscience evolved into its modern incarnation through the twists and turns of history.
Note
"A Bradford book."
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-247) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
From Imhotep to Hubel and Wiesel: 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.
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.
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Series
Bradford book.
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Print version: Gross, Charles G. Brain, vision, memory. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1998
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