Brain, Vision, Memory: Tales in the History of Neuroscience

by Charles G. Gross

Book Overview

In these engaging tales describing the growth of knowledge about the brain--from the early Egyptians and Greeks to the Dark Ages and the Renaissance to the present time--Gross attempts to answer the question of how the discipline of neuroscience evolved into its modern incarnation through the twists and turns of history.

Charles G. Gross is an experimental neuroscientist who specializes in brain mechanisms in vision. He is also fascinated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262571358
• ISBN13: 9780262571357
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher