
Postdoctoral Positions in Vision and Auditory Research
Two newly newly created positions, one in vision and one in audition, are available in the lab, which has now moved to the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore. Click here for more information.
Reviews
Visit the news section of the website to read the recent reviews of the new books and the "Making Sense of Sensory Information" DVD.
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
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.
Discover Magazine
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.
Recent Books
The fourth edition of Neuroscience was published by Sinauer Associates in 2008. For more information, visit Sinauer's website or click here.
The first edition of Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience was published by Sinauer Associates in 2008. This is a textbook written for graduate and undergraduate students seeking an introduction to this emerging field. For more information, click here.
Other new books from the lab include Perceiving Geometry and Why We See What We Do. Click here for more information.
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.
Learn about other books, media accounts of work in the lab, images available for downloads and more.
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