Abstract

Part 1 From Imhotep to Hubel and Wiesel - the story of visual cortex ancient Egyptian surgery and medicine Greek philosopher-scientists and the beginning of brain science the medieval cell doctrine of brain function the rebirth of brain science the beginning of the modern era of cortical localization the discovery of a visual centre in the cerebral cortex. Part 2 Leonardo da Vinci on the brain and eye: Emanuel Swedenborg - a neuroscientist before his time the Hippocampus Minor and man's place in nature - a case study in the social construction of neuroanatomy beyond striate cortex - how large portions of the temporal and parietal cortex became visual areas.

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