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Brain and Visual Perception - The Story of a 25-year Collaboration (Hardcover, New)
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Brain and Visual Perception - The Story of a 25-year Collaboration (Hardcover, New)
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Scientists' understanding of two central problems in neuroscience,
psychology, and philosophy has been greatly influenced by the work
of David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel: (1) What is it to see? This
relates to the machinery that underlies visual perception. (2) How
do we acquire the brain's mechanisms for vision? This is the
nature-nurture question as to whether the nerve connections
responsible for vision are innate or whether they develop through
experience in the early life of an animal or human. 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. It emphasizes the importance of various
mentors in their lives, especially Stephen W. Kuffler, who opened
up the field by studying the cat retina in 1950, and founded the
department of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, where most of
their work was done. The main part of the book consists of Hubel
and Wiesel's most important publications. Each reprinted paper is
preceded by a foreword that tells how they went about the research,
what the difficulties and the pleasures were, and whether they felt
a paper was important and why. Each is also followed by an
afterword describing how the paper was received and what
developments have occurred since its publication. The reader learns
things that are often absent from typical scientific publications,
including whether the work was difficult, fun, personally
rewarding, exhilarating, or just plain tedious. The book ends with
a summing-up of the authors'view of the present state of the field.
This is much more than a collection of reprinted papers. Above all
it tells the story of an unusual scientific collaboration that was
hugely enjoyable and served to transform an entire branch of
neurobiology. It 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 anyone else who is interested in the scientific process.
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