Trevarthen, Colwyn ; editor: - Brain Circuits and Functions of the Mind: Essays in Honor of Roger Wolcott Sperry

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990. orig.cloth. 26x18cm, xxvi,410 pp.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contains 22 papers. includes: Specification of Behavioral Nerve Networks in Invertebrates; Ontogenesis of neuronal nets: the chemoaffinity theory, 1963-1983; The chemoaffinity hypothesis: an appreciation of Roger W. Sperry' s contributions to developmental biology; Retinotectal connections made through ectopic optic nerves; Neural reconnection between the eye and the brain in goldfish; The case for chemoaffinity in the retinotectal system; Split-Brain Studies of Perception, Motor Coordination, and Learning in Cats and Monkeys, and Comparisons to Humans: The role of the corpus callosum in the representation of the visual field in cortical areas; Studies of visual perception and orienting in cats with fore- and midbrain commissure section; Brain pathways in the visual guidance of movement and the behavioral functions of the cerebellum; Intermanual transfer, interhemispheric interaction, and handedness in man and monkeys; Hemispheric specialization in monkeys; A corticolimbic memory path revealed through its disconnection; Cerebral Hemispheres and Human Consciousness: Partial hemispheric independence with the neocommissures intact; Regulation and generation of perception in the asymmetric brain; The neurobiological basis of hemisphericity; Long-term semantic memory in the two cerebral hemispheres; etc.

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