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From Humble Neural Beginnings

Golowasch, J., Abbott, L.F., and Marder, E. (1999). J. Neurosci. 19, light increment over a background field is known to RC33. follow Weber’s law. Likewise, the responses of sensory Harris-Warrick, R.M., Coniglio, L.M., Levini, R.M., Gueron, S., and neurons, such as retinal ganglion cells, also approximate Guckenheimer, J. (1995). J. Neurophysiol. 74, 1404–1420. Weber’s law, and the coding of s...

From Humble Neural Beginnings Comes Knowledge of Numbers

Following a recent report that monkey prefrontal cortex contains cells that represent number concepts, Nieder and Miller investigated the scale used to code numbers. In this issue of Neuron, they report that prefrontal cells use the same scale (Weber's Law) used by sensory neurons to code stimulus intensity, suggesting how abstract cognitive operations may arise from simpler building blocks tha...

Humble Beginnings: Current Trends, State Perspectives, and Hallmarks of Humility

After decades of neglect, research in humility is finally turning a corner. Within the past few years, investigators have articulated two promising strategies to overcome methodological concerns—namely, using personality judgments and designing humility “stress tests” to elicit humility-relevant behavior. We also highlight an alternative perspective of humility that has not yet gained much atte...

Public and community health psychiatry in Africa: from humble beginnings to a promising future.

The humble beginnings of the study of nitrogen excretion in fish.

CC llaa ssss iicc ss JEB Classics is an occasional column, featuring historic publications from The Journal of Experimental Biology. These articles, written by modern experts in the field, discuss each classic paperʼs impact on the field of biology and their own work. A PDF of the original paper is available from the JEB Archive (http://jeb.biologists.org/). THE HUMBLE BEGINNINGS OF THE STUDY O...