Brain and Visual Perception
The Story of a 25-Year Collaboration
1st Edition
Published on 14. October 2004
738 pages
978-0-19-803916-7 (ISBN)
Description
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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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- PART I: INTRODUCTION AND BIOGRAPHIES
- 1. David H. Hubel
- 2. Torsten N. Wiesel
- PART II: BACKGROUND TO OUR RESEARCH
- 3. Cortical Neurophysiology in the 1950s
- 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. Recording from Cells in the Cat Lateral Geniculate
- 10. Our Major Paper on Cat Striate Cortex, 1962
- 11. Recordings from 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 Callosum
- 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. Second Group of Deprivation Papers
- 23. The Siamese Cat
- 24. Cells Grouped in Orientation Columns in Newborn Monkeys
- 25. Plasticity and Development of Monkey Ocular Dominance Columns
- PART V: THREE REVIEWS
- 26. Ferrier Lecture, 1977
- 27. Nobel Lecture, David H. Hubel, Nobel Lecture, Torsten N. Wiesel
- 28. Epilogue: Summing Up
- List of Papers Included
- Glossary
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- Acknowledgments
- Today, Forty-Six Years After Starting
- Index
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