We Know It When We See It by Richard Masland

Author:Richard Masland
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2020-03-09T16:00:00+00:00

9 | Inventing the Nerve Net: Neurons That Fire Together Wire Together

My problem was to understand… how it was that a patient could have a large chunk of brain tissue removed without much effect on his IQ or his intelligence as it seemed to his family. How could there be no loss of intelligence after… removal of the entire right half of the cortex?

—D. O. HEBB

AT THIS POINT WE’RE GOING TO START TRYING TO PUT THINGS together—to give whatever answer we can to the question of how you recognize your daughter. To get to the basics of it, we’ll jump back in time, to the 1960s, and show the history of an exciting branch of neuroscience and computational biology. The basics of it were imagined more than a half century ago by a Canadian neuroscientist named Donald Hebb.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.