News

Best of the Web
Best of the Web

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.


Top 100 Discoveries of the Year

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


New Books

Neuroscience, Fourth Edition
Book: Neuroscience, 4th Edition

Neuroscience, Fourth Edition is a comprehensive textbook created for medical and premedical students as well as graduate students and advanced undergraduates who wish to learn neuroscience. The updated and revised fourth edition (the third edition was published in 2004) was published by Sinauer Associates in the summer of 2007. The editor/authors of the 4th edition are Dale Purves, George Augustine, David Fitzpatrick, William Hall, Anthony-Samuel LaMantia, James McNamara, and Leonard White.

Book info at Sinauer Associate's [sinauer.com] »

Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience
Book: Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience

Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience is a textbook written for graduate and undergraduate students seeking an introduction to this emerging field. It was published by Sinauer Associates in the fall of 2007. The text is intended to inform readers about the rapidly growing canon of cognitive neuroscience, and to make clear the many challenges that remain in this field. The editor/authors are Dale Purves, Elizabeth Brannon, Roberto Cabeza, Scott Huettel, Kevin LaBar, Michael Platt, Marty Woldorff.

Book info at Sinauer Associate's [sinauer.com] »

General Articles

Media accounts of work in the lab addressed to general audiences as well as opinions about the approach to vision presented in the website can be found in the resources section.

Images available for Download

A number of images from the See For Yourself and Research sections of the website are available for download in the resources section. Images can be downloaded in either high or low resolution. Just provide your e-mail in the reserved spaces and a username and password will be immediately emailed to you!

Download Out-of-Print Books

The books Neural Activity and the Growth of the Brain and Body and Brain: A trophic theory of neural connections are both out-of-print, but you can download them here!

Natural Scene Image Database

Natural Scene Image Database Available

We have collected a database of range images of natural scenes. For colleagues who are interested in using this database, please contact Dale Purves for more information.