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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Reading, Massachusetts : Perseus Books, (c)1994.Description: 343 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • 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
Available additional physical forms:
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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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Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) 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

"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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