Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle (July 15, 1918 – January 11, 2015) was an American neurophysiologist and Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins...
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Mountcastle may refer to: Mountcastle, Edinburgh, a suburb of the Scottish city Mountcastle, County Tyrone, a townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland...
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the cortical surface. The structure was first identified by Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle in 1957. He later identified minicolumns as the basic units of...
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maps developed by his predecessors (Archie Tunturi, Clinton Woolsey, Vernon Mountcastle, Wade Marshall, and Philip Bard) and refined them using dense micro-electrode...
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He received the 1993 Australia Prize (along with Peter Bishop and Vernon Mountcastle) for his research into the mechanisms of visual perception, and the...
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of OMIM Adolf Meyer, first psychiatrist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Vernon Mountcastle, neuroscientist and Lasker Award winner Victor Assad Najjar, pediatrician...
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minicolumns are the basic functional units of the cortex. In 1957, Vernon Mountcastle showed that the functional properties of the cortex change abruptly...
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Society: Ralph W. Gerard (Honorary president) Edward R. Perl (1969–1970) Vernon Mountcastle (1970–1971) Neal E. Miller (1971–1972) Walle Nauta (1972–1973) Theodore...
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Louis Hjelmslev, Charles Hockett, H.A. Gleason Jr., Michael Halliday, Vernon Mountcastle Academic work Discipline Linguistics, cognitive science, neuroscience...
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where he also holds the title of the inaugural Virginia Tech Carilion Vernon Mountcastle Research Professor. Montague is also a professor in the department...
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