Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Hubel, David H.

Publication

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

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Additional Authors

Wiesel, Torsten N.

Description

viii, 729 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

"This is a book about the collaboration between Hubel and Wiesel, which began in 1958, lasted until about 1982, and led to a Nobel Prize in 1981. It opens with short autobiographies of both men, describes the state of the field when they started, and tells about the beginnings of their collaboration." "This book will appeal to neuroscientists, vision scientists, biologists, psychologists, physicists, historians of science, and to their students and trainees, at all levels from high school on, as well as to anyone else who is interested in the scientific process."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Visual pathways
• United States
• History, 20th Century
• Visual Perception > physiology
• Biomedical Research > history
• Visual perception

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Pt. I. Introduction and biographies -- 1. David H. Hubel -- 2. Torsten N. Wiesel -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. V. Three reviews -- 26. Ferrier lecture, 1977 -- 27. Nobel lecture, David H. Hubel -- Nobel lecture, Torsten N. Wiesel -- 28. Epilogue : summing up.

ISBN

0195176189 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2004049553
• R8-469713

OCLC

• 55055487
• ocm55055487
• SCSB-5109827

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries