Vernon B. Mountcastle

This monumental work creates a new subdiscipline: perceptual neuroscience. Mountcastle gathers information from a vast number of sources reaching back through two centuries, from phylogenetic, comparative, and neuroanatomical studies of the neocortex to rhythmicity and synchronization in neocortical networks and inquiries into the binding problem.

The Cerebral Cortex

Perceptual Neuroscience

John Mills Brookhart

The Nervous System

Gerald M. Edelman

A proposal by two eminent biological scientists for a mechanism whereby mind becomes manifest from the operations of brain tissue.

Cortical Organization and the Group-selective Theory of Higher Brain Function

The Mindful Brain

Vernon Mountcastle has devoted his career to studying the neurophysiology of sensation in the hand. In The Sensory Hand he provides an astonishingly comprehensive account of the neural underpinnings of the rich and complex tactile experiences evoked by stimulation of the hand.

Vernon B. Mountcastle

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