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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
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Hubel, David H.
Contributor:
Wiesel, Torsten N.
Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.
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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