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Creating Mind How the Brain Works

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ISBN-10: 0393974464

ISBN-13: 9780393974461

Edition: 2000

Authors: John E. Dowling

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This is an introduction to the structure and operation of the brain. It explaines the recent advances in understanding the mind.
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Book details

List price: $19.15
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/13/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.20" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Jack M. Balkin is Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School, where he is also director of the Information Society Project. He lectures widely at universities in America and abroad, and he makes his home in New Haven, Connecticut.John E. Dowling is Gordon and Llura Gund Professor of Neurosciences at Harvard University, and Professor of Ophthalmology (Neuroscience) at Harvard Medical School. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, The American Philosophical Society, and The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he also has won The Helen Keller Prize for Vision Research, the Paul Kayser International Eye Research Award of the International Society…    

Preface
The Uniqueness of the Brain
Brain Signals
Drugs and the Brain
Creepy, Crawly Nervous Systems
Brain Architecture
Vision: Window to the Mind
Development and Brain
Language, Memory, and the Human Brain
The Emotional Brain
The Conscious Brain
Glossary
Further Reading
Index