Neuroscientists once thought that the brain’s wiring was fixed in early life, but the pioneering research of National Academy of Sciences member Charles Gilbert continues to show that the adult brain is remarkably dynamic. Evidence supporting that view is presented in Gilbert and colleagues’ studies of the neural mechanisms underlying visual perception, learning, and memory. Gilbert, the Arthur...

Charles H. Talbot, PhD, BD, BCL, died at his home in London on 13 September 1993 of a stroke at the age of eighty-seven. He was best known to medical history as a leading expert on medieval England. He also made notable contributions to the fields of Cistercian studies and the history of the Anglo-Saxon church. Born in Portsmouth in 1906, Charles Talbot received his education at Mundella School...

THE memory of the birth ofThomas Charles Hope, said to be one of the most popular teachers of science ever to have lived in Great Britain, seems to have been eclipsed by the birth, in the same year, of Dalton the famous philosopher, and Wollaston the genius of experiment and invention. Thomas Charles was born 21 July 1766, son of Dr. John Hope who was Professor of Botany in the University of Gl...

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Since its first description in 1760, Charles Bonnet syndrome (CBS) has been reported in many studies. The main characteristics are visual hallucinations, preserved awareness of unreal visions, and absence of psychotic symptoms. CBS can occur with lesions located anywhere along the central visual pathway, from the eye to the calcarine fissure. Objective To describe patients with CBS and carry ...

centuries (C.B. Schmitt); science in the early Royal Society (M.D. Hall); science and religion in the seventeenth century (P.M. Rattansi); the growth of Netherlands science in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries (W. D. Hackmann); the rise and fall of Scottish science (J. R. R. Christie); scientific careers in eighteenth-century France (R. Hahn); the development of a professional care...

of a larger future work. During the remainder of his life Charles Darwin continued his research, publishing three additional books on explicitly evolutionary topics, and other books on topics including climbing plants, insect-orchid mutualisms, and earthworms. At the age of seventy-three, Charles Darwin died at Down house on April 19, 1882, with his wife, Emma, by his side. Emma Darwin Charles ...

Introduction and Overview Charles Thorpe and Takeo Kanade Overview Accomplishments Insights and Advice Progress Chronology Personnel Publications Color Vision for Road Followlng Jill Crisman and Charles Thorpe Erpliclt Models for Robot Road Following Karl Kluge and Charles mope Buildlng and navlgating maps of mad scenes uslng and active Sensor Martial Hebert 3-D Vislon Techniques for Autonomous...