Brains
Financial Times Prentice Hall (Verlag)
978-0-13-706066-5 (ISBN)
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In this highly personal book, Purves reveals how we got to this point and offers his notion of where neuroscience may be headed next. Purves guides you through a half-century of the most influential ideas in neuroscience and introduces the extraordinary scientists and physicians who created and tested them.
Purves offers a critical assessment of the paths that neuroscience research has taken, their successes and their limitations, and then introduces an alternative approach for thinking about brains. Building on new research on visual perception, he shows why common ideas about brain networks can’t be right and uncovers the factors that determine our subjective experience. The resulting insights offer a deeper understanding of what it means to be human.
• Why we need a better conception of what brains are trying to do and how they do it
Approaches to understanding the brain over the past several decades may be at an impasse
• The surprising lessons that can be learned from what we see
How complex neural processes owe more to trial-and-error experience than to logical principles
• Brains--and the people who think about them
Meet some of the extraordinary individuals who’ve shaped neuroscience
• The “ghost in the machine” problem
The ideas presented further undermine the concept of free will
Dale Purves is Professor of Neurobiology, Psychology and Neuroscience, and Philosophy at Duke University. He is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Medical School. Upon completion of an internship and assistant residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Purves was a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School and subsequently in the Department of Biophysics at University College London. He joined the faculty at Washington University School of Medicine in 1973 where he was Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, and came to Duke in 1990 as the founding chair of the Department of Neurobiology in the School of Medicine. From 2003 to 2009 he was Director of Duke’s Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and is now Director of the Neuroscience and Behavioral Disorders Program of the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Institute of Medicine.
Preface vii
Chapter 1 Neuroscience circa 1960 1
Chapter 2 Neurobiology at Harvard 17
Chapter 3 Biophysics at University College 37
Chapter 4 Nerve cells versus brain systems 51
Chapter 5 Neural development 69
Chapter 6 Exploring brain systems 87
Chapter 7 The visual system: Hubel and Wiesel redux 105
Chapter 8 Visual perception 123
Chapter 9 Perceiving color 143
Chapter 10 Theorganization of perceptual qualities 161
Chapter 11 Perceiving geometry 179
Chapter 12 Perceiving motion 201
Chapter 13 How brains seem to work 219
Suggested reading 235
Glossary 241
Illustration credits 275
Acknowledgments 281
About the author 283
Index 285
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.10.2018 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Upper Saddle River |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Neurologie |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-13-706066-1 / 0137060661 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-13-706066-5 / 9780137060665 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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