Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle (July 15, 1918 – January 11, 2015) was an American neurophysiologist and Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins...

Mountcastle may refer to: Mountcastle, Edinburgh, a suburb of the Scottish city Mountcastle, County Tyrone, a townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland...

the cortical surface. The structure was first identified by Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle in 1957. He later identified minicolumns as the basic units of...

maps developed by his predecessors (Archie Tunturi, Clinton Woolsey, Vernon Mountcastle, Wade Marshall, and Philip Bard) and refined them using dense micro-electrode...

of OMIM Adolf Meyer, first psychiatrist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Vernon Mountcastle, neuroscientist and Lasker Award winner Victor Assad Najjar, pediatrician...

He received the 1993 Australia Prize (along with Peter Bishop and Vernon Mountcastle) for his research into the mechanisms of visual perception, and the...

minicolumns are the basic functional units of the cortex. In 1957, Vernon Mountcastle showed that the functional properties of the cortex change abruptly...

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...

Louis Hjelmslev, Charles Hockett, H.A. Gleason Jr., Michael Halliday, Vernon Mountcastle Academic work Discipline Linguistics, cognitive science, neuroscience...

where he also holds the title of the inaugural Virginia Tech Carilion Vernon Mountcastle Research Professor. Montague is also a professor in the department...