to 1971 and in the Department of Biophysics, University College London, from 1971 to 1973. Career Purves joined the faculty of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the Washington University in 1971 and remained on staff until 1990. During that time he studied the development of the nervous system. He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1989. In 1990, Purves founded the Department of Neurobiology at Duke University where he did research on the cognitive neuroscience of visual and auditory perception. Published works Books Purves, D. (1985) Principles of Neural Development, Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA. . Purves, D. et al. (1997) Neuroscience 1st edition. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA. Purves, D. et al. (2001) Neuroscience 2nd edition. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA. Purves, D. et al. (2003) Why we see what we do: An empirical theory of vision. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA. Purves, D. et al. (2004) Neuroscience 3rd edition. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA. Purves, D. et al. (2007) Principles of Cognitive Neuroscience Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA. Purves, D. et al. (2008) Neuroscience 4th edition. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA. Purves, D. (2010) Brains: How they Seem to Work. Financial Times Press, NJ. Purves, D. et al. (2011) Neuroscience 5th edition. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA. Purves, D. and Lotto, R. (2011) Why We See What We Do Redux: A Wholly Empirical Theory of Vision. Sinauer Associates, MA. Purves, D. et al. (2017) Neuroscience 6th edition. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA. Purves, D. (2017) Music as Biology: The Tones We Like and Why. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Purves, D. (2019) Brains as engines of association: an operating principle for nervous systems. Oxford University Press. References News and magazine articles Official Website Purveslab.net. Choi, C. Explaining the aperture illusion. Scientific American 29 March 2009. Musical chords mimic the emotion of speech. Daily News and Analysis, India, 15 December 2009. The Biology of music: why we like what we like. Boing Boing 14 December 2009. Vieru, T. Music, Emotions and Speech form a whole. Softpedia 3 December 2009. Duke team Explains Longtime visual puzzler in new way. Duke Medicine News and Communications 13 October 2008. Kruglinski, S. Musical scales mimic of language. Discover Magazine, 100 Top Science Stories of 2007. January 2008. Scientists explain the 'flash-lag' effect. Science News, United Press 14 October 2008. Thank K. In search of music's biological roots. Duke Magazine May 2008. Bates, K. The Essential