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< p> The cerebral cortex, occupying over 70 percent of our brain mass, is key to any understanding of the workings–and disorders–of the human brain. offering a comprehensive account of the role of the cerebral cortex in perception, this monumental work by one of the world’s greatest living neuroscientists does nothing short of creating a new subdiscipline in the field: perceptual neuroscience. < /p> < p> For this undertaking, Vernon Mountcastle has gathered information from a vast number of sources reaching back through two centuries of investigation into the intrinsic operations of the cortex. His survey includes phylogenetic, comparative, and neuroanatomical studies of the neocortex; studies of the large-scale organization of the neocortex, of neuronal histogenesis and the specification of cortical areas, of synaptic transmission between neurons in cortical microcircuits, and of rhythmicity and synchronization in neocortical networks; and inquiries into the binding problem–how activities among the separate processing nodes of distributed systems coalesce in a coherent activity that we call perception. < /p> < p> The first book to summarize what is known about the physiology of the cortex in perception, < i> Perceptual Neuroscience< /i> will be a landmark in the literature of neuroscience. < /p>
