American Neuroscience in the Twentieth CenturyA history of how neural, behavioural and communicative subdisciplines coalesced in neuroscience to create a promising approach to understanding the relation of mind to brain. It chronicles the expansion of prominent centres of research and the development of innovative apparatus and concepts. |
Contents
PRODROMAL NINETEENTHCENTURY | 3 |
PASSAGE TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY | 31 |
Forebrains of Reptiles Birds and Eventually Mammals | 56 |
CONSOLIDATION AND DISCOVERY | 65 |
ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY OVERTAKES | 81 |
THE PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM | 141 |
INTO THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM | 171 |
DEVELOPMENT OF EXPERIMENTAL | 199 |
THAT WHALE AMONG THE FISHES | 279 |
SEX AND THE BRAIN | 307 |
THE ROOT OF CONSCIOUSNESS | 329 |
81 | 336 |
INFRAHUMAN COMMUNICATION | 347 |
SPEECH AND HUMAN LANGUAGE | 377 |
POSTSCRIPT | 407 |
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ANIMAL BEHAVIOR AND COMPARATIVE | 223 |
PREFRONTAL CORTEX OF INFRAHUMAN | 251 |
Primatology at Yale University | 257 |
The Primate Center Dream | 268 |
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American Neuroscience in the Twentieth Century Horace Winchell Magoun,Louise H. Marshall No preview available - 2020 |
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