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A Hole in the Head: More Tales in the History of Neuroscience
Author(s): Charles G. G. Gross (Author)
- Publisher: MIT Press
- Publication Date: 13 Jan. 2012
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 366 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780262517331
- ISBN-13: 9780262517331
Book Description
Essays on great figures and important issues, advances and blind alleys—from trepanation to the discovery of grandmother cells—in the history of brain sciences.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Readers not familiar with Gross’ other works should read them along with the entertaining, stimulating, and informative chapters in A Hole in the Head.–Helen Bynum, The Journal of the American Medical Association—
About the Author
Charles G. Gross, a neuroscientist specializing in vision and the functions of the cerebral cortex, is Professor of Psychology at Princeton University. He is the author of Brain, Vision, Memory: Tales in the History of Neuroscience (MIT Press, 1998).
