John E Dowling: 3 books
The Great Brain Debate
Nature or Nurture?
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2011
Whether our personality, intelligence, and behavior are more likely to be shaped by our environment or our genetic coding is not simply an idle question for today's researchers. There are tremendous consequences to understanding the crucial role that environment and genes each play. How we raise and...
by John E. Dowling
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
An examination of what makes us human and unique among all creatures—our brains.
No reader curious about our “little grey cells” will want to pass up Harvard neuroscientist John E. Dowling’s brief introduction to the brain. In this up-to-date revision of his 1998 book Creating Mind,...
Vision
How It Works and What Can Go Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Descriptions of basic visual mechanisms and related clinical abnormalities, by a neuroscientist and an ophthalmologist.
Over the past fifty years, enormous progress has been made in understanding visual mechanisms and treating eye disorders. And yet the scientist is not always aware of the...