Laboratory of Dale Purves, MD

…percepts are generated probabilistically, representing the most frequently observed real-world sources of the stimuli confronting the observer in the past.

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Making Sense of Sensory Information
Davidson Films has released a film in which Dale Purves explores the challenges of explaining visual perception. For more information, visit Davidson Films.

The Scientist Magazine Award

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The Purves lab website has been voted the "Best of the Web" by the editors of The Scientist magazine! You can read more about it here.

The Scientist Magazine Award

Discover Magazine judged the recent work from the lab on music as one of the top 100 "Discoveries of the Year". For more information, visit Discover Magazine - 100 Top Science Stories of 2007: January 2008.

New Books
The fourth edition of Neuroscience was published by Sinauer Associates in July 2007. For more information, visit Sinauer's website or click here.

The first edition of Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience was published by Sinauer Associates in November 2007. This is a textbook written for graduate and undergraduate students seeking an introduction to this emerging field. For more information, click here.

Out of print Books

Several Purves books that have recently gone out of print are now available as downloads for those who may be interested in the material covered.

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Explore how the research in the Purves Lab seeks to explain why we see and hear what we do. Several new demos have been added to the See For Yourself section of the website.

Learn about other books, media accounts of work in the lab, images available for downloads and more.