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priced to sell???
Seems like $413.00 is a bit of a high price for this excellent paperback book, especially when you can download it for free from the Harvard Medical School web site & then print it out (as I did). Even though the research is circa 30 years old, the book still gives an excellent description of the many facets of our vision and how they were discovered via painstaking research.

Stellar, fun book
I was fortunate enough to be Dr. Hubel's advisee as well as his seminar student (class size 12) my freshman year. We used Eye, Brain, and Vision as our textbook, and I must say that it is a stellar, groundbreaking book. Even at his age, Dr. Hubel has his quirks and fun sense of humor, and it shows in this book. For anybody with an interest in neurophysiology, the eye, or visual perception, this book should be a fun read. Highly recommended.

P.S. Dr. Hubel had "tea and cracker" breaks during our seminars. Fun.

No question about it
If you want to learn about Psychoanalysis, you read Freud.
If you want to learn about the general Theory of Relativity, you read Einstein.
If you want to learn about Eye, Brain and Vision, you read Hubel.

Seeing is Not Believing
This is a great book for anyone interested in how they are reading these words.How is it possible that particular cells in our body can differentiate among physical objects and send electronic flickerings to the brain that then interprets this collection of atoms into familiar objects - a computer, monitor, keyboard, words or letters?

The details are explained clearly with many good diagrams and illustrations.We get something on the history of vision, the cellular and neural interplay that has combined to produce this miracle we call sight, and the comparison of photoelectric and other artificial methods of seeing with our human one.

Another great addition to the Scientific American Library.

Overview of vision
This reference provides an easy to read overview of vision. There is an introduction to neurons and neural pathways, followed by an introduction to the eye and its receptive fields. The visual pathway from the eyes to the primary visual cortex is then discussed. Orientation-specific simple and complex cells in the striate cortex are discussed. The architecture and modules of the visual cortex are then discussed, followed by a discussion of stereopsis, color vision and development of the visual system. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Donald O. Hebb, Wilder Penfield, Michael Persinger, Brenda Milner, Jane Stewart, David H. Hubel, Merlin Donald, Paul Spong, Karen Davis, Endel Tulving, Lillian Dyck, Michael Meaney, E. Paul Zehr, George Karpati, Herbert Jasper, André Barbeau, Albert Aguayo. Excerpt:Albert Juan Aguayo (born July 16, 1934), OC , FRSC is a Canadian neurologist at McGill University . He is a native of Argentina . Honours/Awards References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at André Barbeau , OC , MSRC (27 May 1931 9 March 1986) was a French Canadian neurologist . He was known for his research into Parkinson's disease and Friedreich's ataxia . Born in Montreal, Quebec , he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from College Stanislas and his medical degree from the Université de Montréal . He was the director of the neurobiology department at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (Montreal Clinical Research Institute), affiliated with the Université de Montréal . In 1980, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada . In 1985, he was awarded the Quebec government's Prix Marie-Victorin . In 1986, he was awarded the Royal Society of Canada 's McLaughlin Medal. He died in 1986 and was buried in Notre-Dame-des Cemetery in Montreal. References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Neuropsychology item Topics Brain-computer interface Traumatic brain injury Brain regions Clinical neuropsychology Cognitive neuroscience Dissociation Human brain Misconceptions Neuroanatomy Neurophysiology Optogenetics Phrenology item Brain functions Arousal Attention Consciousness Decision making Executive functions Natural language Learning Memory Motor coordination Sensory perception Planning Problem solving Thought item People Arthur L. Benton David Bohm António Damásio Phin... ... Read more

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Scientists' understanding of two central problems in neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy has been greatly influenced by the work of David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel: (1) What is it to see?This relates to the machinery that underlies visual perception.(2) How do we acquire the brain's mechanisms for vision?This is the nature-nurture question as to whether the nerve connections responsible for vision are innate or whether they develop through experience in the early life of an animal or human.This is a book about the collaboration between Hubel and Wiesel, which began in 1958, lasted until about 1982, and led to a Nobel Prize in 1981.It opens with short autobiographies of both men, describes the state of the field when they started, and tells about the beginnings of their collaboration.It emphasizes the importance of various mentors in their lives, especially Stephen W. Kuffler, who opened up the field by studying the cat retina in 1950, and founded the department of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, where most of their work was done.The main part of the book consists of Hubel and Wiesel's most important publications.Each reprinted paper is preceded by a foreword that tells how they went about the research, what the difficulties and the pleasures were, and whether they felt a paper was important and why.Each is also followed by an afterword describing how the paper was received and what developments have occurred since its publication.The reader learns things that are often absent from typical scientific publications, including whether the work was difficult, fun, personally rewarding, exhilarating, or just plain tedious.The book ends with a summing-up of the authors' view of the present state of the field.This is much more than a collection of reprinted papers. Above all it tells the story of an unusual scientific collaboration that was hugely enjoyable and served to transform an entire branch of neurobiology.It will appeal to neuroscientists, vision scientists, biologists, psychologists, physicists, historians of science, and to their students and trainees, at all levels from high school on, as well as anyone else who is interested in the scientific process. ... Read more