• See large image

  Neural Activity and the Growth of the Brain (Lezioni Lincee) (Paperback) By (author) Dale Purves

  

  $25.27 - Save $0.73 (2%) - RRP $26.00 Free shipping worldwide (to United States and
  all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours Add to basket | Add to wishlist |

  Short Description for Neural Activity and the Growth of the BrainThis 1994 volume explores the hypothesis that neural activity generated by experience modulates the ongoing growth of the brain during maturation.
  Full description

  • Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Published: 24 June 1994
  • Format: Paperback 126 pages
  • See: Full bibliographic data
  • Categories: Cognition & Cognitive Psychology | Neurology & Clinical Neurophysiology | Neurosciences
  • ISBN 13: 9780521455701 ISBN 10: 0521455707

• Body and Brain

  

  Add to basket $32.57 -

• Why We See What We Do Redux

  

  Add to basket $65.17 -

• The Woman Who Changed Her Brain

  

  Add to basket $18.14 - Save $7.86 30% off - RRP $26.00

• Brain Rules

  

  Add to basket $12.34 - Save $2.66 (17%) - RRP $15.00

• The Brain That Changes Itself

  

  Add to basket $12.55 - Save $4.45 26% off - RRP $17.00

Full description for Neural Activity and the Growth of the Brain

• Understanding the role of neural activity in the development of the brain has been a major concern of many modern neurobiologists. The reason is plain enough: since the world influences the brain by means of action potentials and synaptic potentials, activity must be the chief cause of the neural changes wrought by experience. This 1994 volume explores the hypothesis that neural activity generated by experience modulates the ongoing growth of the brain during maturation, thus sculpting in each of us a unique nervous system according to the events of our early life. Brain growth is considered at a macroscopic level by examining brain maps and their modular substructure, and at a cellular level by investigating the neuronal interactions that influence the formation and maintenance of these structures. The ways that experience influences the maturation of the brain at both macroscopic and microscopic levels are described, and the conventional wisdom is re-examined.