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A Vision of the Brain by Semir zeki is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A Vision of the Brain. S. Zeki, Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, 1993, 366 pp. " When confronted by a difficult problem which goes against their way of thinking, scientists often begin by shutting their eyes firmly to the evidence and pretending that it does not exist. The next stage consists of accepting the evidence but pretending that it is not important or that it can be adequately explained by the known facts. The third and final stage consists of admitting the evidence and its significance but pretending that it has all been said before." Zeki's book is full of this familiar succession. He begins with the Young-Helmholtz Trichromatic Theory, that any given coloured light can be matched by mixing three other lights of different colour. Helmholtz believed that colour was a property of an object, like size and shape, representing the wavelengths of light reflected from its surface. Although revolutionizing understanding of colour vision in the early part of this century, Helmholtz seems to have been aware that the theory could not account for the sensation of colour. Colours change little when viewed by different illuminant wavelengths, so colour perception does not re

Who reads A Vision of the Brain?

Author

Semir zeki

Publisher

Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford

Published

1993

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Neuroscience, Medicine