We Know It When We See It: What the Neurobiology of Vision Tells Us about How We Think by Masland, Richard
We Know It When We See It: What the Neurobiology of Vision Tells Us about How We Think by Masland, Richard

We Know It When We See It: What the Neurobiology of Vision Tells Us about How We Think

A Harvard researcher investigates the human eye in this insightful account of what vision reveals about intelligence,...
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We Know It When We See It: What the Neurobiology of Vision Tells Us about How We Think by Masland, Richard

We Know It When We See It: What the Neurobiology of Vision Tells Us about How We Think

CHF 43.33
We Know It When We See It: What the Neurobiology of Vision Tells Us about How We Think by Masland, Richard

We Know It When We See It: What the Neurobiology of Vision Tells Us about How We Think

CHF 43.33
Author: Richard Masland
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
A Harvard researcher investigates the human eye in this insightful account of what vision reveals about intelligence, learning, and the greatest mysteries of neuroscience.

Spotting a face in a crowd is so easy, you take it for granted. But how you do it is one of science's great mysteries. And vision is involved with so much of everything your brain does. Explaining how it works reveals more than just how you see. In We Know It When We See It, Harvard neuroscientist Richard Masland tackles vital questions about how the brain processes information -- how it perceives, learns, and remembers -- through a careful study of the inner life of the eye.
Covering everything from what happens when light hits your retina, to the increasingly sophisticated nerve nets that turn that light into knowledge, to what a computer algorithm must be able to do before it can be called truly intelligent, We Know It When We See It is a profound yet approachable investigation into how our bodies make sense of the world.

Author: Richard Masland
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 03/10/2020
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.60w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781541618503


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/25/2019
Library Journal 01/01/2020 pg. 97
Choice 11/01/2020

About the Author
Richard Masland is the David Glendenning Cogan distinguished professor of ophthalmology and professor of neuroscience at Harvard Medical School. For many years he was director for research in ophthalmology at Harvard's Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, the world's largest vision research institute. He is a fellow of the AAAS, a former Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, and a recipient of the Proctor Medal and Alcon Research Award, among others. Masland has made groundbreaking contributions to the study of neural networks and to the reversal of blindness. He divides his time between Boston, Massachusetts and Frenchtown, Maryland.

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