American Neuroscience in the Twentieth Century

ISBN-13: 9780367446895 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 500 str.

H. W. Magoun; L. Marshall

Opis

This book introduces the history of the neural sciences, and explores the behavioral sciences, originating on foreign ground in late 19th century. It is concerned with the communicative sciences among nonhuman and human animals respectively.

Spis treści

Part 1: Neural Sciences 1. Prodromal Nineteenth-Century Developments 2. Passage to the Twentieth Century 3. Consolidation and Discovery 4. Electrophysiology Overtakes Morphology 5. New Trails on Fresh Terrain 6. The Peripheral Nervous System 7. Into the Central Nervous System Part 2: Behavioral Sciences 8. Development of Experimental Psychology 9. Animal Behavior and Comparative Psychology 10. Prefrontal Cortex of Infrahuman Primates 11. “That Whale among the Fishes – the Theory of Emotions” 12. Sex and the Brain 13. “The Root of Consciousness” Part 3: Communicative Sciences 14. Infrahuman Communication 15. Speech and Human Language 16. Postscript

O autorze

Magoun, H.W. | Marshall, L.