Cortical neurobiology: a slanted historical perspective.
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I have been asked to compose an essay on the development of ideas in cortical neurophysiology over the past two decades. That, it seems to me, amounts to writing a paper that is all introduction-no methods, no results -perhaps some discussion. Not a task one undertakes lightly, and I make no guarantees as to the outcome. When asked to reminisce about the good old days, two thoughts occur to me. One: the "good old days" are right now. Competitive and over crowded and at times almost vicious as the field has become, we have nevertheless to keep pinching ourselves to wake up and appreciate how lucky we are to be in a field of science that is moving and breathlessly exciting. And unlike the situation in those "good old days," it is now at least possible to earn a living at it. We are now where molecular biology was 10 to 15 years ago and where physics was when I was in college. To be in a field of science at just the right time takes, among other things, a lot of luck. My second thought is a completely different one. A few years ago Torsten Wiesel and I decided to put together a set of reprints with forethoughts and afterthoughts, a book of readings like so many others, except that with characteristic modesty these readings would be restricted to our own pa pers. (An average of one paper a year seems meager to Medical School Promotions Committees, but if you live long enough it adds up.) Well, we partitioned the work in some fair manner such as me writing two-thirds and Torsten one-third, but when we got to the 1963-1965 visual-deprivation papers, through some misunderstanding we each independently wrote some pages of introduction, describing how and why we started closing cats' eyes.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Annual review of neuroscience
دوره 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1982