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Author Gross, Charles G.

Title Brain, vision, memory : tales in the history of neuroscience / Charles G. Gross
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1998]
©1998

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 MELB  612.809 Gro/Bvm  AVAILABLE
Description xviii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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 -- 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
Notes "A Bradford book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-247) and index
Subject Neurosciences -- History.
Neurosciences -- history.
Brain.
Vision, Ocular.
Hippocampus.
Visual Cortex.
LC no. 97017168
ISBN 026207186X alkaline paper