Purposive Brain

Name: Purposive Brain
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ISBN: 9780262570541

ISBN-10: 0262570548

ISBN-13: 9780262570541

Edition: 1980

Authors: Ragnar Granit

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When Ragnar Granit was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (with Wald and Hartline) in 1967, his scientific peer, Sir John C. Eccles, wrote that "He was awarded this prize for his work on the electroretinogram, but it should be recognized that, in fact, he has made contributtions of the highest level in two rather dissimilar fields of neurophysiology; with equal fitness he could have been awarded the Prize for his work on the control of movement. His investigations of the electroretinogram were virtually completed with the publication in 1974 of his classic book, Sensory Mechanisms of the Retina. From that time he has been in the forefront of investigators on the control…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1980
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 7/31/1980
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.03" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Preface



The General Nature of Biological Explanations



Purpose, Chance, and Causality



Exploring Adaptabilities



Encephalization, Cortical Maps, and Redundancy



Some Approaches to Conscious Awareness



In Search of Building Blocks for Perception



Birth and Some Consequences of the Single-Cell Approach to Problems of Motor Control



Current Ideas on Brain Control of Movement



Motor and Sensory Organizations in Integrated Action



Aims and Limits of Explaining and Understanding


Notes


Name Index


Subject Index