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

Author/creator Gross, Charles G.
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1998.
Descriptionxviii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Neurosciences--History.
Neurosciences--history.

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.
General note"A Bradford book."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [211]-247) and index.
LCCN 97017168
ISBN026207186X (alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks QP353 .G76 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold
Laupus Books - Stacks WL 11.1 G878B 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold