David H. M. D. Hubel, Torsten N. M. D. Wiesel

Brain and Visual Perception (eBook, PDF)

The Story of a 25-Year Collaboration

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the story of a hugely successful and enjoyable 25-year collaboration between two scientists who set out to learn how the brain deals with the signals it receives from the two eyes. Their work opened up a new area of brain research that led to their receiving the Nobel Prize in 1981. The book contains their major papers from 1959 to 1981, each preceded and followed by comments telling how and why the authors went about the study, how the work was received, and what has happened since. It begins with short autobiographies of both men, and describes the state of the field when they started. It is intended not only for neurobiologists, but for anyone interested in how the brain works-biologists, psychologists, philosophers, physicists, historians of science, and students at all levels from high school to graduate level.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780198039167
• Artikelnr.: 38132080

Autorenporträt

David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel were both awarded the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Torsten Wiesel is the Secretary General of the Human Frontier Science Program and President of the International Brain Research Organization.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Introduction and biographies
1: David H. Hubel
2: Torsten N. Wiesel
Part II: Background to our research
3: Cortical neurophysiology in the 1950's
4: The group at Hopkins
5: The move from Hopkins to Harvard
6: The new department
Part III: Normal Physiology and Anatomy
7: Our first paper, on cat cortex, 1959
8: Recordings from fibers in the monkey optic nerve
9: Recordings from cells in the cat lateral geniculate
10: Our major paper on cat striate cortex, 1962
11: Recordings from the cat prestriate areas, 18 and 19
12: Survey of the monkey lateral geniculate body - a foray into colour
13: Recording fibers in the cat corpus collosum
14: Recordings in monkey striate cortex, 1968
15: Another visual representation, the cat Clare-Bishop area
17: Anatomy of the geniculo-cortical pathway: the Nauta method
18: Ocular dominance columns revealed by autoradiography
19: Regular sequences of orientation shifts in monkeys
20: Cortical modules and magnification in monkeys
Part IV: Deprivation and development
21: The first three kitten deprivation papers
22: The second group of deprivation papers
23: The siamese cat
24: Cells grouped in orientation columns in newborn monkeys
25: Plasticity and development of monkeys ocular dominance columns
Part V: Three reviews
26: Ferrier lecture, 1977
27: Nobel lecture, David H. Hubel, 1981
Nobel lecture, Torsten N. Wiesel, 1981
28: Epilogue: summing up
List of papers included
Glossary
Index
Today, 46 years after starting