FoundationalConceptsNeuroscience

project focuses on building a complete map of the much simpler, but still vastly complex, mouse brain. Some folks anticipate tha ...

we know comes to us via our body, so continuing the study of percep- tion, action, and neural correlates of consciousness will b ...

study of mental experience was essential to a science of mind. He also appreciated that the investigation of mental experience r ...

A radically empirical approach to studying human experience. One of William James’s lifelong interests was investigation of wha ...

tigation of psi phenomena, and those who take the time to look closely at the results of these investigations are frequently imp ...

briick and Erwin Schrédinger) almost a century ago. Perhaps the time has now come. In 1892 William James wrote this about the fu ...

and relativity; and quantum physics. How positively exciting! All our science to date points to deeper and more nuanced con- nec ...

it happens soon enough for us all to witness. Perhaps it is already happening. ...

Figure Credits Unless noted in the listing below, figures are original for this book. Most of the original artwork was drawn by ...

book 4, figure 1 (brain) and figure 10 (spinal cord). Figure 2.11: Reacting to fire: René Descartes, L’Homme de René Descartes ( ...

can Institute of Physics. Figure 4.3 (left): Bacteriophage drawing: From Wikimedia Commons; author, Michael David Jones (Wikimed ...

H. Baillon, Histoire des plantes, vol. 9 (Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1888), figure 431 (jimson weed) and figure 437 (henbane). F ...

Chapter 12 Figure 12.2: Alembic: John French, The art of distillation, 2nd ed. (1651; Lon- don: E. Coates for Thomas Williams, 1 ...

under Creative Commons, Attribution-Share 3.0 Unported. Figure 15.11: Bony labyrinth of the human inner ear: H. Gray, Anatomy of ...

Figure 19.2 (left): Hippocampus: Henry Gray, Anatomy of the human body, 20th rev. ed., edited by W. H. Lewis (1858; Philadelphia ...

Notes This list of notes and references is not meant to be comprehensive. Included are a few articles and books I have found par ...

“Tf the nervous communication be cut off”: James (1890, p. 4). Caenorhabditis elegans neurobiology: de Bono and Maricq (2005). O ...

“We should doubtless kill an animal,” Niels Bohr’s 1932 lecture in which he speculates about investigating the molecular basis o ...

published in London in 1818. Authorship was left anonymous, and many in that day assumed the book was written by Mary’s husband, ...

Batrachotoxins in beetles and birds: Dumbacher et al. (2004). Curare and many other aspects of Amazonian ethnobotany are beautif ...