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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820712603321

Autore

Hubel David H

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y., : Oxford University Press, 2005

ISBN

0-19-803916-6

1-280-84495-7

1-4294-3102-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (738 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WieselTorsten N

Disciplina

152.14

Soggetti

Visual pathways

Visual perception

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 1950's; 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;  Acknowledgments; Today, Forty-Six Years After Starting; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

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