VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY VOLUME I, ISSUE 2 SPRING 1996
About this issue
The brain is the human computer. It orchestrates upwards of 10 billion nerve
cells to control movement, govern behavior and, most important, allows us
to recall, reason and make choices.
This issue of Research at Vanderbilt focuses on the varied and significant
efforts underway at the University to expand what is known about how this
remarkable 
organ functions and how it affects human behavior
p; physically, socially, psychologically, cognitively and philosophically.
Vanderbilt is indeed fortunate to have on our faculty Ford
Ebner, a highly respected leader in the field of neuroscience, and Jon
Kaas, whose basic research is providing significant insights into the
sensory and perceptual systems of the brain, as well as a number of other
outstanding scientists and scholars who are working to better understand
the brain.
The study of the brain, like much of the research at Vanderbilt, is an interdisciplinary
one, with scholars in a number of fields making important contributions.
In this edition of Research at Vanderbilt you will meet many of them.
As with the debut issue last fall that focused on space research, this edition
offers but a sampling of the broad and varied explorations being conducted
by the University's outstanding faculty. In future issues we plan to highlight
other efforts with a common theme.
Chancellor Joe B. Wyatt
Brain Research
Neural circuits:
Keys to understanding brain damage
Cell Response:
Helping the brain recover from trauma
Neural networks:
A guide to robot vision research
Memory:
Priming facilitates information retrieval
Knowing ourselves:
The puzzling phenomena of consciousness
ACUSTAR I:
Reinventing neurosurgery
Violence:
Children vigilent to hostile cues
Learning:
Testing fun in functional studies
Hearing
Touching
Seeing
Smelling
Illustration by Lana Finch
Spring 1996
Volume I, No. 2
Fall
1995 Issue, Space Research
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