Brains
Subtitle: how they work and what that tells us about who we are
By: Dale Purves.
Publisher: FT Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Upper Saddle River, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780137055098
Subjects: Brain -- Popular works; Neurobiology -- Popular works
Genres: Popular works
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Neuroscience circa 1960; title: Neurobiology at Harvard; title: Biophysics at university college; title: Nerve cells versus brain systems; title: Neural development; title: Exploring brain systems; title: The visual system : Hubel and Wiesel redux; title: Visual perception; title: Perceiving color; title: The organization of perceptual qualities; title: Perceiving geometry; title: Perceiving motion; title: How brains seem to work.