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Nature Reviews Neuroscience 7, 745-752 (September 2006) | doi:10.1038/nrn1973
Essay: Imagining the brain cell: the neuron in visual culture
Richard Wingate1 & Marius Kwint2 About the authors
Abstract
Images of the exquisitely formed apparatus of the nervous system have great potential to capture the imagination. However, the fascinating complexity and diversity of neuronal form has only rarely been celebrated in broader visual culture. We discuss how scientific and cultural practices at the time of the neuron's discovery generated a legacy of schematic and simplified popular neuronal imagery, which is only now being revised in the light of technological advances and a changing artistic climate.
Author affiliations
- Richard Wingate is at the Medical Research Council Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King's College London, 4th floor New Hunt's House, Guy's Campus, London SE1 1UL, UK.
- Marius Kwint is at the Department of the History of Art and the Centre for Visual Studies, University of Oxford, Littlegate House, 16–17 St Ebbe's, Oxford OX1 1PT, UK.
Correspondence to: Richard Wingate1 Email: richard.wingate@kcl.ac.uk
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