ABSTRACT

A history of how neural, behavioural and communicative subdisciplines coalesced in neuroscience to create a promising approach to understanding the relation of mind to brain. It chronicles the expansion of prominent centres of research and the development of innovative apparatus and concepts.

part |2 pages

PART 1 NEURAL SCIENCES

chapter 1|28 pages

PRODROMAL NINETEENTH-CENTURY DEVELOPMENTS

chapter 2|34 pages

PASSAGE TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

chapter 3|16 pages

CONSOLIDATION AND DISCOVERY

chapter 4|26 pages

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY OVERTAKES MORPHOLOGY

chapter 6|30 pages

THE PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM

chapter 7|26 pages

INTO THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM

part |2 pages

PART 2 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

chapter 8|24 pages

DEVELOPMENT OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

chapter 9|28 pages

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR AND COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

chapter 10|28 pages

PREFRONTAL CORTEX OF INFRAHUMAN PRIMATES

chapter 12|22 pages

SEX AND THE BRAIN

chapter 13|16 pages

“THE ROOT OF CONSCIOUSNESS”

part |2 pages

PART 3 COMMUNICATIVE SCIENCES

chapter 14|30 pages

INFRAHUMAN COMMUNICATION

chapter 15|28 pages

SPEECH AND HUMAN LANGUAGE

chapter 16|6 pages

POSTSCRIPT