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“We Know It When We See It: What the Neurobiology of Vision Tells Us About How We Think (English Edition)”，作者：[Richard Masland]

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Spotting a face in a crowd is so easy, you take it for granted. But how you do it is one of science's great mysteries.

Vision is involved in nearly a third of everything a brain does and explaining how it works reveals more than just how we see. It also tells us how the brain processes information – how it perceives, learns and remembers.

In We Know It When We See It, pioneering neuroscientist Richard Masland covers everything from what happens when light hits your retina, to the increasingly sophisticated nerve nets that turn that light into knowledge, to what a computer algorithm must be able to do before it can truly be called ‘intelligent’. It is a profound yet accessible investigation into how our bodies make sense of the world.

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Oneworld Publications
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2021年1月7日
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B081B92H4G
出版社 ‏ : ‎ Oneworld Publications (2021年1月7日)
出版日期 ‏ : ‎ 2021年1月7日
语言 ‏ : ‎ 英语
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> ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1541618505

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Barrington

An explanation of the central visual system by a long time researcher in the field.

2022年8月29日 - 已在美国亚马逊上发表

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Masland was the chief scientist for Mass Eye and Ear's retinal group. He wrote this shortly before his death a couple of years ago.

This book altered the way I think about how we see and think about what we see. It is full of a lifetime of experiments, interactions with well known scientists in the area and their stories, and insights. I am grateful to the author for writing this book.

If you are a serious student of vision, you need to read this book. I will give you one pertinent example. Masland describes the experiments on monkey's optic nerves that elucidated the patterns of signalling to the brain. The experiments are difficult to do, time consuming, and requires great care on the part of the experimenter. It changed my opinion on what the experiments are telling us. I was glad that the monkeys for the most part survived these experiments.

Masland was both a neuroscientist and an anatomist, and you can see it in his approach to his research.

This is a well written and engaging work of science.

Thomas McCoy

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2021年7月15日 - 已在美国亚马逊上发表

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While the book is in good condition, it is an advance uncorrected copy. The cover announces "Not For Sale." Yet you bought and sold it.

AnnieB

Fascinating accessible and accurate

2020年5月3日 - 已在美国亚马逊上发表

We Know It When We See It is a layman accessible examination of sight and the incredible neurobiology of its cooperation with the body. Released 10th March 2020 by Hatchette on their Basic Books imprint, it's 272 pages and available in hardcover, audio, and ebook formats. t's worth noting that the ebook format has a handy interactive table of contents as well as interactive links. I've really become enamored of ebooks with interactive formats lately.

There are a handful of engaging and adept "everyman" science writers who manage to break down and convey complex, even profound, concepts into digestible parts for non-specialists. It's a distinct gift and not one that all science writers have in equal measure. Happily, Dr. Masland seems to be quite adept at instruction without obfuscation, and I really enjoyed reading this densely instructive (and entertaining) treatise.

The book proceeds logically, building and defining the concepts from perception, through sight, how neurons are built up and interact, signaling pathways, some brain physiology and moving along to how the brain interprets the sent signals, what that means for the body in general and more widely, possible applications for machine learning and AI. (Exciting / fascinating stuff)!

The text throughout is meticulously annotated and full of links to further more specialized/complex reading for the especially interested. The author also includes short chapter notes at the end of the book with expanded info on chapter subjects. There is a comprehensive bibliography and further reading list, as well as a good glossary, but no index.

This book reminds me a lot of some of the best classes of my university career; enlightening and educational lectures with an engaged and competent professor. The text is never overly academic or pedantic (or dull), but it will take some effort to extract and learn the presented information.

Five stars, fascinating and worthwhile book for everyone.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

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Dee Arr

Spending Neurons on the Things We Actually See, and Other Insights

2020年3月10日 - 已在美国亚马逊上发表

One might think that the clinical study of neuroscience would be akin to watching paint dry, until it is considered that only these slow, painful gains of knowledge lead to greater understanding of how our bodies and minds work. I consider the content of this book to be dense, jam-packed with knowledge on how our eyes work. Author Richard Masland realizes his audience, and does his best to walk us through the harder parts. The pictures and drawings throughout the book are a definite aid.

Along the way, Mr. Masland stretches out and examines other related paths, such as how memories are stored and the comparison between human and machine learning (contrary to what the media tells us, at this point in time we are not in danger of being replaced). Throughout the book there are plenty of explanations while at other times we receive a question to chew on (For example, in the last paragraph a question is posed: “When I see an apple, do I see the same red as you?”). That reminded me of a good friend, whose perceptions of what is green or blue always seems to slightly differ from mine.

This is not an easy read, but Mr. Masland’s style of writing greatly reduces the difficulty. Once a major point has been achieved, there is a recap to help us remember the salient pieces of knowledge. I also found the glossary to be invaluable if I didn’t remember a definition. I learned more about the ability to see than I ever expected, and did receive information about AI and the endeavors to make them see and remember (which was one of the reason I wanted to read this book). A side benefit were the extended explanations on how lab work and experiments in the world of neuroscience are conducted. Extremely interesting. Five stars.

My thanks to NetGalley and Perseus books for a complimentary electronic copy of this title.

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Jeff and Tonya

Remarkable.

2020年3月10日 - 已在美国亚马逊上发表

This is one of those science books you love to find, no matter your particular interest in any field – a book written by seemingly one of the leaders in the field who has seemingly contributed much to the study of the issue at hand, yet who writes a book that we who barely know what the general subject is can understand the state of the field and the author’s contributions to it. In this particular case, we are hearing about the state of vision and perception research from a cellular biologist who has himself won a couple of awards for research in this very field. Masland writes with enough precision that his peers can likely only quibble, if anything, and yet with enough generality that the rest of us can fairly easily follow the discussion. Even with a lack of the discussed diagrams in this particular ARC, the discussion was easily enough followed and the mild humor – if a bit geeky – was appreciated. Very much recommended.

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