David Hunter Hubel (1926?2013)

David Hubel 1926–2013

Hydraulic microelectrode advancermade by David Hubel. David Hubel was a giant in our field, yet he waswarm, friendly, and humble in person. He and Torsten Wiesel, following in the footsteps of their mentor Steve Kuffler, discovered fundamental principles of information processing in the brain and fundamental principles of how the brain wires itself up. I think many people in the field see David...

The Harvard Review

A New Psychology? iii EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Molecules and Memory 1. FRANCIS 0. SCHMITT Memories, Molecules and Minds 8 JAMES V. MCCONNELL The Physiology of the Brain in 1.965 1.8 DAVID H. HUBEL The Death of Dualism 24 ALFRED L. GOLDBERG Machines That Can Think 36 STEPHEN F. JENCKS The Whole Or Its Parts? 46 PHILIP J. STONE Love in a Test Tube 49 JOEL E. COHEN _ Psychophysiology and the 57 RICHA...

David H. Hubel (1926–2013)

canopy density is linked to weaker or no thermophilisation. By offering more shadow, it appears, the trees are shielding the ground vegetation from the temperature rise. “We believe that the effect of the tree canopy is to moderate changes in temperature at the lower levels in the wood — particularly where, as is the case in much of Europe, woods have been becoming denser and shadier in recent ...

Single-cell Responses in Striate Cortex of Kittens Deprived of Vision in One Eye1

David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel

While attending medical school at McGill, David Hubel developed an interest in the nervous system during the summers he spent at the Montreal Neurological Institute. After heading to the United States in 1954 for a Neurology year at Johns Hopkins, he was drafted by the army and was assigned to the Neuropsychiatry Division at the Walter Reed Hospital, where he began his career in research and di...