• 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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  • 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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    disease Adolf Meyer, first psychiatrist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Vernon Mountcastle, neuroscientist and Lasker Award winner Victor Assad Najjar, pediatrician...
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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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    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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  • 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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    paleopallium. The columnar functional organization, as originally framed by Vernon Mountcastle, suggests that neurons that are horizontally more than 0.5 mm (500 μm)...
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  • Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, Henneman and colleague, Vernon Mountcastle, showed that tactile information about the extremities is represented...
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  • Moser 1963– Norway Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 2014. Vernon Mountcastle 1918–2015 United States Anthony Movshon 1950– United States Golden...
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    provided some insights on the neural correlates of conscious behavior. Vernon Mountcastle, in the early 1960s, set up to study this set of problems, which he...
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  • several important physiologists, such as Phillip Bard, Carl Richter and Vernon Mountcastle. He returned three years later to Argentina, to continue his participation...
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    possibility of this structure was considered by research conducted by Vernon Mountcastle in 1956 about the topographic properties of the somatosensory system...
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  • Henry G. Kunkel 1978 David Hubel (1981 Physiology of Medicine), Vernon Mountcastle, Torsten Wiesel (1981 Physiology or Medicine) 1979 Walter Gilbert...
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  • worked at Cornell Medical College and Johns Hopkins University with Vernon Mountcastle. He was instrumental in introducing the neuropharmacological use of...
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  • Francisco, in 1979. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship with Prof. Vernon Mountcastle at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1981. After...
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  • schizophrenia. 1978 Stephen William Kuffler 1979 Roger Sperry 1980 Vernon Mountcastle 1981 Herbert Jasper 1982 Jerzy E. Rose [pl], Clinton N. Woolsey 1983...
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  • alters neurons and connections, as learning takes place.: 48, 164  Vernon Mountcastle's formulation of a cortical column is a basic element in the framework...
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    work of Sir Charles Sherrington. Nat Rev Neurosci. 11(6):429-36 Mountcastle, Vernon C. (2005). The Sensory Hand: Neural Mechanisms of Somatic Sensation...
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    1950; there he met neuroanatomist Jerzy Rose and neurophysiologist Vernon Mountcastle, who would become a lifelong mentor in surgical and electrophysiological...
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  • the mesoscopic level has remained elusive. Some authors, including Vernon Mountcastle, argued that the mesoscopic level of sensory brain areas might be...
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  • 1993 - Sensory perception theme - Horace Barlow, Peter Bishop and Vernon Mountcastle 1992 - Mining or processing of mineral resources theme - John Watt...
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  • football player (Walsall) and coach (West Bromwich Albion). Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle, 96, American professor emeritus (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine)...
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  • 1993 – Sensory perception theme – Horace Barlow, Peter Bishop and Vernon Mountcastle 1992 – Mining or processing of mineral resources theme – John Watt...
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  • University 1976 Mortimer Mishkin National Institutes of Health 1984 Vernon Mountcastle Johns Hopkins University 1966 J. Anthony Movshon New York University...
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  • Earl K. Miller Richard G. Morris Edvard Moser May-Britt Moser Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle Lynn Nadel Charles A. Nelson III Helen Neville John O'Keefe Elizabeth...
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    Edelman's colleague, the American neurophysiologist and anatomist Vernon B. Mountcastle (July 15, 1918 – January 11, 2015), describes the columnar structure...
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    005. PMID 15661314. S2CID 6316809 – via Elsevier Science Direct. Mountcastle, Vernon (July 1957). "Modality and topographic properties of single neurons...
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  • Scientific Prize: André Leroi-Gourhan (1980) William H. Thorpe (1981) Vernon B. Mountcastle (1982) Harold C. Conklin (1983) Roger W. Brown (1984) Pierre Buser [fr]...
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