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Seeing sense

Charles G. Gross1

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A look back at work that established the link between eye and brain.

BOOK REVIEWEDBrain and Visual Perception: The Story of a 25-Year Collaboration

by David H. Hubel & & Torsten N. Wiesel


Oxford University Press: 2004. 738 pp. $49.50, £29.99

In 1959, two postdoctoral fellows, a Canadian and a Swede working together at Johns Hopkins University, made an 'accidental discovery'. They found that the image of an edge of a glass slide activated cells in the region of a cat's brain known as the striate cortex.

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