The enchanted loom : chapters in the history of neuroscience / edited by Pietro Corsi.

Date:
1990
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Publication/Creation

New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.

Physical description

383 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 29 cm.

Contributors

Notes

New, expanded edition of the exhibition catalogue La Fabbrica del pensiero
Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Review copy
Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: F. COX

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographic references and index

Contents

The play of images : the art of memory from its origins to the seventeenth century / Lina Bolzoni -- Schemes and models of the thinking machine (1662-1762) / Renato G. Mazzolini -- Between form and function : a new science of man / Claudio Pogliano -- Beyond phrenology : localization theory in the modern era / Anne Harrington -- Neurons : the cells of thought / Alberto Oliverio and Gordon M. Shepherd -- Pathways of perception / Luciano Mecacci -- Understanding the retina / John E. Dowling -- Drugs, neurotransmitters, and the brain / Solomon H. Snyder -- Mind and machines -- Brain, mind and computers : a very brief history of artificial intelligence / Roberto Cordeschi -- A critique of artificial intelligence / Israel Rosenfield
Biological memory / Larry R. Squire and Alberto Oliverio -- The evolution of positron emission tomography / Michael E. Phelps -- Neurology and the soul / Oliver Sacks -- The enchanted loom : an exhibition for the decade of the brain / Louis W. Sullivan, Silvio Conte.

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  • 0195066464