Neuroscience

1. Humor:
   
   • See also the phrenology images on the "Modularity of Mind" webpage.
   

   

2. Two good books:
   1. O'Shea, Michael (2005), The Brain: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
      • Ch. 3: "Signalling in the Brain: Getting Connected", pp. 28-41.

   2. Baars, Bernard J.; & Gage, Nicole M. (eds.) (2007), Cognition, Brain, and Consciousness: Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience (London: Academic Press).

3. The next two items were found on: "Neuroscience and Behavior" (UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences Division of Anatomy and Cell Biology).
   1. Stewart, Patricia; Wilson-Pauwels, Linda; & Cameron, Teddy, Neurons: Animated Cellular and Molecular Concepts (University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine).
      See especially:
      1. Ch. 1: Anatomy of a Neuron:
         1. §3: Functional components of neurons
         2. §6: Dendrites (esp.: incoming signals)
         3. §8: Axon (esp.: branch extensively)
         4. §9: (synapse)

      2. Ch. 2, §1: Axonal Transport

      3. Ch. 5, §7: Action Potential

      4. Ch. 7, §1: Postsynaptic Mechanisms

   2. Vilis, T. (2004), "Meds 1 Neurophysiology" (University of Western Ontario Department of Physiology & Pharmacology).

4. Brain lobes
   • Fig. 2.5 from Kolak et al. 2006

5. McCulloch & Pitts neural nets
   • Fig. 1 from McCulloch & Pitts 1943

6. 
   Thagard, Paul (2005), Ch. 9: "Brains", from Paul Thagard, Mind: Introduction to Cognitive Science, 2nd Edition (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press):147-160.

7. Is the Brain a Computer?
   • Click on the link above for a list of readings.

8. R. Douglas Fields (2008), "White Matter Matters", Scientific American (March): 54-61.
   • "Although scientists have long regarded the brain's white matter as passive infrastructure, new work shows that it actively affects learning and mental illness."

9. Choi, Charles Q. (2008), "Do You Need Only Half Your Brain?", Scientific American (March): 104.