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

by Gross, Charles G.

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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1999.

Neurosciences -- History.

0262571358 (pbk.) :

xviii, 255 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

1st MIT Press paperback ed.

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.

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