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Nature 434, 1069-1070 (28 April 2005) | doi:10.1038/4341069a; Published online 27 April 2005
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BOOK REVIEWED-Brain 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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