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Author Gross, Charles G.

Title Brain, vision, memory : tales in the history of neuroscience / Charles G. Gross.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1998]
©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 255 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Bradford book.
Note "A Bradford book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-247) and index.
Contents 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 -- Medieval Cell Doctrine of Brain Function -- Rebirth of Brain Science -- Beginning of the Modern Era of Cortical Localization -- Discovery of a Visual Center in the Cerebral Cortex -- Leonardo da Vinci on the Brain and Eye -- Emanuel Swedenborg: A Neuroscientist Before His Time -- 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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Neurosciences -- History.
Neurosciences.
History.
Neurosciences -- history.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Gross, Charles G. Brain, vision, memory. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1998 026207186X (DLC) 97017168 (OCoLC)36877412
ISBN 0585024812 (electronic book)
9780585024813 (electronic book)
9780262071864 (alkaline paper)
026207186X (alkaline paper)
0262571358
9780262571357
026207186X