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Author:

Gross, Charles G.

Title:

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

Publisher:

MIT Press,

Copyright Date:

c1998

Description:

xviii, 255 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Neurosciences--history.
Neurosciences--history.

Notes:

"A Bradford book." Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-247) and index.

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.

ISBN:

9780262071864 (alk. paper)
026207186X (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)36877412
(OCoLC)39299958

LCCN:

97017168

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OAAX516 -- Maharishi University of Management Library (Fairfield)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)

UUAX975 -- Briar Cliff University - Mueller Library (Sioux City)