Brain 2005 128(5):1226-1229; doi:10.1093/brain/awh507
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BRAIN AND VISUAL PERCEPTION
The story of a 25-year collaboration
By David H. Hubel and Torsten N. Wiesel
2004. New York: Oxford University Press.
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ISBN 0-19-517618-9
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Measuring sight by sound
In proposing a vote of thanks for
the three Special University Lectures in Physiology that David
Hubel delivered at University College, London, in February 1965,
the late Professor Joseph Barcroft said that they belonged in
the same league as those he had been privileged to have heard
from Ramon y Cajal, Sir Charles Sherrington, Lord Adrian and
Sir John Eccles, each one of whom had given major insights into
the nervous system. The accolade was nothing if not deserved.
The lectures were brilliantly delivered, and remain in my memory
as amongst the finest that I have heard on any subject. They
described the work that David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel had begun
in 1958, a collaboration that was to last for 25 years and to
revolutionize our knowledge of the workings of the visual brain.
Brain and Visual Perception is a record of that collaboration,
most of it in the
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Semir Zeki
Laboratory of Neurobiology, University College London, London, UK
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