Torsten Wiesel
Torsten Wiesel
Torsten Nils Wieselis a Swedish neurophysiologist. Together with David H. Hubel, he received the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system; the prize was shared with Roger W. Sperry for his independent research on the cerebral hemispheres...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth3 June 1924
CountrySweden
became charles continued laboratory primary professor
In 1983, I became the Vincent and Brook Astor Professor at The Rockefeller University, where I established a new Laboratory of Neurobiology and continued my close collaboration with Charles Gilbert on the circuitry of primary visual cortex.
begun cells david decided describe emerged highly physiology properties response specific visual
In the early Sixties, having begun to describe the physiology of cells in the adult cat visual cortex, David Hubel and I decided to investigate how the highly specific response properties of cortical cells emerged during postnatal development.