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Explorers of the Brain
Author: Leonard A. Stevens
Hard cover with dust jacket, excellent condition.
Explorers of the Brain is a nonfiction history of neuroscience that traces how scientists gradually uncovered the structure and function of the human brain. Written by American author Leonard A. Stevens, the book presents a chronological survey of major discoveries in brain research, starting from early philosophical ideas about thought and consciousness and moving through key breakthroughs in modern physiology, psychology, and neurobiology.
A central focus of the book is how different researchers—ranging from early anatomists and physiologists to twentieth-century experimental psychologists—helped build today’s understanding of neurons, brain regions, electrical signalling, and behaviour. Stevens explains how ideas about reflexes, memory, perception, and learning developed over time, often by describing landmark experiments and the scientists behind them.
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