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Randolph Blake

which enables researchers to examine the contents of hundreds of bamboo crates packed with dinosaur bones that have remained unopened since they were brought by ship almost a century ago. Specimens such as a finely written 16th century log book and museum director Reinhold Lienfelder’s personal favourite, a sea-foamcoloured cabinet full of rare corals, have been restored. And items with a darke...

Randolph Blake and Hugh

critical reading of the manuscript and help with Box 2. \17VJ, stader, C. B. etal. (1983) Proc. NatlAcad. Sci. USA 80, 51 Korn,H.andt-aber,U.~.\1~!SI)lntVeWlt/~/5"U"'LVJ.r"ut".,~ 1840-1844 Function (Edelman, G. M., Gall, W. E. and Cowan, W. M., Dana, E. et al. (1989) J. Neurosci. 9, 2247-2257 eds), pp. 57-108, Neurosciences Research Foundation, Wiley Hamel, E. and Beaudet, A. (1984) Nature 312,...

VISUAL COMPETITION Randolph Blake

The human brain, although renowned for its awesome computational powers, lapses into profound confusion when it receives conflicting views of the visual world. Consider, for example, the so-called AMBIGUOUS FIGURES presented in FIG. 1. The optical input to vision remains unchanged, and yet the resulting perceptual interpretation vacillates over time between alternative views — the behaviour cal...

The dissertation of Randolph

Dr. Charles Randolph