The Idea of the Brain: A History: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 - Couverture rigide

Cobb, Professor Matthew

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 178125589X ISBN 13 : 9781781255896

Editeur : Profile Books Ltd, 2020

Synopsis

A monumental, sweeping journey from the ancient roots of neurology to the most astonishing recent research

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Matthew Cobb is Professor of Zoology at the University of Manchester where his research focuses on the sense of smell, insect behaviour and the history of science. His books include The Egg & Sperm Race and acclaimed accounts of the French Resistance during the Second World War and the liberation of Paris in 1944.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

This is the story of our quest to understand the most mysterious object in the universe. Today we tend to picture the brain as a computer. Earlier scientists thought about it in their own technological terms: as a telephone switchboard, or a clock, or all manner of fantastic mechanical or hydraulic devices. Could the right metaphor unlock the brain's deepest secrets once and for all? Galloping through centuries of wild speculation and ingenious, sometimes macabre anatomical investigations, scientist and historian Matthew Cobb reveals how we came to our present state of knowledge. Our latest theories allow us to create artificial memories in the brain of a mouse, and to build AI programmes capable of extraordinary cognitive feats. A complete understanding seems within our grasp. But to make that final breakthrough, we may need a radical new approach. At every step of our quest, Cobb shows that it was new ideas that brought illumination. Where, he asks, might the next one come from? What will it be?

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Profile Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 178125589X
• ISBN 13: 9781781255896
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 480
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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