Brains: How They Seem to Work by Dale Purves
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

This book was free when I downloaded it to my Nook from Barnes and Noble.

I have a general interest in neuroscience. For the first six chapters, this book was an entertaining memoir of Purves' career and other scientists exploring the function and anatomy of nerve cells and brain cells. Then he switches his outlook to an empirical study of vision and perception. This part seemed more difficult to read and even boring. "Accordingly our perceptions never correspond to physical reality despite the fact that they provide successful operational guides to behavior."

I recommend it only to readers who have more of an interest and more of a knowledge of this area of neuroscience than I do.

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