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...

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

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

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

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...

possibility of this structure was considered by research conducted by Vernon Mountcastle in 1956 about the topographic properties of the somatosensory system...

worked at Cornell Medical College and Johns Hopkins University with Vernon Mountcastle. He was instrumental in introducing the neuropharmacological use of...

Moser 1963– Norway Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 2014. Vernon Mountcastle 1918–2015 United States Anthony Movshon 1950– United States Golden...

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...

Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, Henneman and colleague, Vernon Mountcastle, showed that tactile information about the extremities is represented...

Henry G. Kunkel 1978 David Hubel (1981 Physiology of Medicine), Vernon Mountcastle, Torsten Wiesel (1981 Physiology or Medicine) 1979 Walter Gilbert...

several important physiologists, such as Phillip Bard, Carl Richter and Vernon Mountcastle. He returned three years later to Argentina, to continue his participation...

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...

Francisco, in 1979. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship with Prof. Vernon Mountcastle at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1981. After...

work of Sir Charles Sherrington. Nat Rev Neurosci. 11(6):429-36 Mountcastle, Vernon C. (2005). The Sensory Hand: Neural Mechanisms of Somatic Sensation...

1950; there he met neuroanatomist Jerzy Rose and neurophysiologist Vernon Mountcastle, who would become a lifelong mentor in surgical and electrophysiological...

1993 - Sensory perception theme - Horace Barlow, Peter Bishop and Vernon Mountcastle 1992 - Mining or processing of mineral resources theme - John Watt...

football player (Walsall) and coach (West Bromwich Albion). Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle, 96, American professor emeritus (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine)...

schizophrenia. 1978 Stephen William Kuffler 1979 Roger Sperry 1980 Vernon Mountcastle 1981 Herbert Jasper 1982 Jerzy E. Rose [pl], Clinton N. Woolsey 1983...

1993 – Sensory perception theme – Horace Barlow, Peter Bishop and Vernon Mountcastle 1992 – Mining or processing of mineral resources theme – John Watt...

the mesoscopic level has remained elusive. Some authors, including Vernon Mountcastle, argued that the mesoscopic level of sensory brain areas might be...

University 1976 Mortimer Mishkin National Institutes of Health 1984 Vernon Mountcastle Johns Hopkins University 1966 J. Anthony Movshon New York University...

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]...

Masters – biochemist and adjunct professor at Duke University Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle – neurophysiologist and Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience at...

005. PMID 15661314. S2CID 6316809 – via Elsevier Science Direct. Mountcastle, Vernon (July 1957). "Modality and topographic properties of single neurons...