Horace Newcomb in Conversation with Tara McPherson
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Horace Barlow
Horace Barlow is retired Royal Society Research Professor of Physiology at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of the Royal Society. He graduated in Medicine at Cambridge in 1947 and stayed there doing research in vision until 1964. He then moved to the University of California at Berkeley, staying there until 1973 when he returned to Cambridge. His main interest has always been in vision, ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of e-Media Studies
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1938-6060
DOI: 10.1349/ps1.1938-6060.a.320