Brains as Engines of Association: An Operating Principle for Nervous Systems

ISBN-13: 9780190880163 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 216 str.

Dale Purves

Recenzje

Over the past 20 years, Purves has developed a theory of perception that he calls 'a wholly empirical strategy.' In this book, he provides a lucid explanation and comprehensive defense of his provocative ideas, and sets it in a broader evolutionary context. In addition to being of broad and general interest, it challenges biologists to find out how the brain accomplishes the remarkable feats that Purves documents.

O autorze

Dale Purves is Geller Professor of Neurobiology Emeritus at Duke University, where he moved in 1990 as the founding chair of the Department of Neurobiology. He was subsequently Director of Duke's Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and the Director of the Neuroscience and Behavioral Disorders Program at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore. His research has sought to explain why we see and hear what we do. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Medicine.