Descartes and modern neuroscience

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 356-371

  At Smith, C U ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EVOLUTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MACHINE; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

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