Brain and Visual Perception

by David H. Hubel, Torsten N Wiesel

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 Foray into Color. 13. Recording Fibers in the Cat Corpus Collosum. 14. Recordings in Monkey Striate Cortex, 1968. 15. Another Visual Representation, the Cat Clare-Bishop Area. 16 Encoding of Binocular Depth in a Cortical Area in the Monkey. 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, Forty-six Years After Starting. Torsten Wiesel. David Hubel

Genres: Science, Psychology, Neuroscience, Nonfiction, Art

738 pages, Paperback

First published October 14, 2004

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[J.R. Ortiz · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Rick Sam · Rating 3 out of 5]

A Technical work on Visual System and Visual Processing

A Nobel Partnership: Hubel & Wiesel

Brain and Visual Perception: The Story of a 25-Year Collaboration

David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel came to Harvard from Johns Hopkins University with Steven Kuffler in the early 1960s to establish the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. Their breakthrough discoveries about the visual system and visual processing earned them the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1981.

Hubel and Wiesel recorded electrical activity from individual neurons in the brains of cats.

They used a slide projector to show specific patterns to the cats and noted that specific patterns stimulated activity in specific parts of the brain. Such single-neuron recordings were an innovation at the time, enabled by Hubel’s earlier invention of a special recording electrode. They systematically created a map of the visual cortex with these experiments. The original film projector, light filters and slides, are held at the Warren Anatomical Museum at the Countway Library of Medicine.


Source: Harvard Brain Lab

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[Tatiana (DraCat) · Rating 5 out of 5]

История исследования зрительной системы. В книге оживает история получения знаний о восприятии, которые сегодня считаются хрестоматийными и входят во все хендбуки по сенсорной физиологии и психологии