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Brain and visual perception : the story of a 25-year collaboration / David H. Hubel, Torsten N. Wiesel.
LIBRA QP475 .H815 2005
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hubel, David H.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Visual pathways.
- Visual perception.
- Visual Perception--physiology.
- United States.
- Biomedical Research--history.
- History, 20th Century.
- Medical Subjects:
- Visual Perception--physiology.
- United States.
- Biomedical Research--history.
- History, 20th Century.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 729 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Contents:
- Part I Introduction and Biographies
- 1 David H. Hubel 5
- 2 Torsten N. Wiesel 25
- Part II Background to Our Research
- 3 Cortical Neurophysiology in the 1950s 37
- 4 The Group at Hopkins 41
- 5 The Move from Hopkins to Harvard 48
- 6 The New Department 53
- Part III Normal Physiology and Anatomy
- 7 Our First Paper, on Cat Cortex, 1959 59
- 8 Recordings from Fibers in the Monkey Optic Nerve 83
- 9 Recording from Cells in the Cat Lateral Geniculate 91
- 10 Our Major Paper on Cat Striate Cortex, 1962 104
- 11 Recordings from Cat Prestriate Areas, 18 and 19 141
- 12 Survey of the Monkey Lateral Geniculate Body-A Foray into Color 193
- 13 Recording Fibers in the Cat Corpus Callosum 231
- 14 Recordings in Monkey Striate Cortex, 1968 244
- 15 Another Visual Representation, the Cat Clare-Bishop Area 273
- 16 Encoding of Binocular Depth in a Cortical Area in the Monkey 282
- 17 Anatomy of the Geniculo-Cortical Pathway: The Nauta Method 286
- 18 Ocular Dominance Columns Revealed by Autoradiography 317
- 19 Regular Sequences of Orientation Shifts in Monkeys 325
- 20 Cortical Modules and Magnification in Monkeys 354
- Part IV Deprivation and Development
- 21 The First Three Kitten Deprivation Papers 369
- 22 Second Group of Deprivation Papers 404
- 23 The Siamese Cat 455
- 24 Cells Grouped in Orientation Columns in Newborn Monkeys 480
- 25 Plasticity and Development of Monkey Ocular Dominance Columns 493
- Part V Three Reviews
- 26 Ferrier Lecture, 1977 595
- 27 Nobel Lecture, David H. Hubel; Nobel Lecture, Torsten N. Wiesel 657
- Today, Forty-Six Years After Starting 723.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0195176189
- OCLC:
- 55055487
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