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Brain and visual perception : the story of a 25-year collaboration / David H. Hubel, Torsten N. Wiesel.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Hubel, David H., author.
Wiesel, Torsten N., author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Visual pathways.
Visual pathways--Research--History.
Visual perception.
Visual perception--Research--History.
Visual Perception--physiology.
Biomedical Research--history.
History, 20th Century.
Visual Pathways.
Visual Perception.
United States.
Medical Subjects:
Visual Perception--physiology.
Biomedical Research--history.
History, 20th Century.
Visual Pathways.
Visual Perception.
United States.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii, 729 pages) : illustrations
Edition:
1st ed.
Other Title:
Story of a 25-year collaboration
Story of a twenty-five-year collaboration
Place of Publication:
New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
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 Johns 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 F
Contents:
David H. Hubel
Torsten N. Wiesel
Cortical neurophysiology in the 1950's
The group at Hopkins
The move from Hopkins to Harvard
The new department
Our first paper, on cat cortex, 1959
Recordings from fibers in the monkey optic nerve
Recordings from cells in the cat lateral geniculate
Our major paper on cat striate cortex, 1962
Recordings from cat prestriate areas, 18 and 19
Survey of the monkey lateral geniculate body- a foray into color
Recording fibers in the cat corpus callosum
Recordings in monkey striate cortex, 1968
Another visual representation, the cat clare-bishop area
Encoding of binocular depth in a cortical area in the monkey
Anatomy of the geniculo-cortical pathway: the nauta method
Ocular dominance columns revealed by autoradiography
Regular sequences of orientation shifts in monkeys
Cortical modules and magnification in monkeys
The first three kitten deprivation papers
Second group of deprivation papers
The Siamese cat
Cells grouped in orientation columns in newborn monkeys
Plasticity and development of monkey ocular dominance columns
Ferrier lecture, 1977
Nobel lecture, David H. Hubel; Nobel lecture, Torsten N. Wiesel
Epilogue: summing up.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780198039167
0198039166
9781280844959
1280844957
9781429431026
1429431024
OCLC:
476257503

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