Conversations with Neil's brain : the neural nature of thought and language / William H. Calvin, George A. Ojemann. [print]

By:

Calvin, William H, 1939- [Author]

Contributor(s):

Ojemann, George A

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780201483376
9780201632170

Other title:

Neil's brain
Neural nature of thought and language

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

QP376.O39.C668 1994
QP376

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Contents:

Losing consciousness -- Seeing the brain speak -- If language is left, what's right? -- The problems with paying attention -- The personality of the lowly neuron -- The what and where of memory -- How are memories made? -- What's up front -- When things go wrong with thought and mood -- Tuning up the brain by pruning -- Acquiring and reacquiring language -- Taking apart the visual image -- How the brain subdivides language -- Why can we read so well? -- Stringing things together in novel ways --

In search of the narrator.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status)	G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION	Non-fiction	QP376.C318 1994 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		31923001635776

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"A William Patrick book."

A window to the brain -- Losing consciousness -- Seeing the brain speak -- If language is left, what's right? -- The problems with paying attention -- The personality of the lowly neuron -- The what and where of memory -- How are memories made? -- What's up front -- When things go wrong with thought and mood -- Tuning up the brain by pruning -- Acquiring and reacquiring language -- Taking apart the visual image -- How the brain subdivides language -- Why can we read so well? -- Stringing things together in novel ways --

Deep in the temporal lobe, just across from the brain stem -- In search of the narrator.

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