Wiesel Torsten (42 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Fine. Near fine with very mild external rubbing. // Offprint. Quarto; iii, 557-639 pages: illustrations (some color); 28 cm. Proceedings of the colloquium held at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center in Irvine, Calif., May 20-22, 1995./ Reprinted from the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, volume 93."/ Includes bibliographical references. // Reprinted from the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, volume 93."/ National Academy of Sciences colloquium series; Variation: National Academy of Sciences colloquium series. [series].Visual perception -- Congresses. Vision, Ocular -- physiology Visual Pathways -- growth & development Visual Perception -- physiology Vision -- Congrès. Perception visuelle -- Congrès. Vision Visual perception proceedings (reports) Conference papers and proceedings Conference papers and proceedings. Actes de congrès.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Two members of the Committee on Human Rights (CHR), NAS member Mary Jane West-Eberhard and NAS/NAE member Morton Panish, undertook a mission to Guatemala to observe the trial of two high-level Guatemalan military officials who were charged with ordering the murder of Guatemalan anthropologist Myrna Mack. She was stabbed to death in 1990, two days after a report for which she was principal researcher, "Assistance and Control: Policies Toward Internally Displaced Populations in Guatemala," was published by the Georgetown University Press. Ms. Mack had been doing research on and writing about the unjust treatment of the internally displaced people in Guatemala. Thirteen years after Ms. Mack's murderafter the case had gone through dozens of courts and countless delaysa general and colonel in the Guatemalan military intelligence apparatus were brought to trial, and one was convicted. This marked the first time in Guatemalan history that a high-level military official had been brought to justice for atrocities he committed during Guatemala's 30-year civil war. This report summarizes the one-month trial proceedings. Two members of the Committee on Human Rights (CHR), NAS member Mary Jane West-Eberhard and NAS/NAE member Morton Panish, undertook a mission to Guatemala to observe the trial of two high-level Guatemalan military officials who were charged with ordering the murder of Guatemalan anthropologist Myrna Mack. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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Condition: New. Presents the story of an exciting and hugely successful 25-year collaboration between two scientists - David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel. This book contains their major papers from 1959 to 1981, each with comments telling how and why the authors went about the study, how the work was received, and what has happened since. Num Pages: 744 pages, numerous halftones and line drawings. BIC Classification: JML; JMM; JMRP; MJQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 259 x 183 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1457. . 2004. Hardback. . . . .…

Hardback. Condition: New. Illustrated. Scientists' understanding of two central problems in neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy has been greatly influenced by the work of David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel: What is it to see? This relates to the machinery that underlies visual perception, How do we acquire the brain's mechanisms for vision? This is the nature-nurture question as to whether the nerve connections responsible for vision are innate or whether they develop through experience in the early life of an animal or human.This is a book about the collaboration between Hubel and Wiesel, which began in 1958, lasted until about 1982, and led to a Nobel Prize in 1981. It opens with short autobiographies of both men, describes the state of the field when they started, and tells about the beginnings of their collaboration. It emphasizes the importance of various mentors in their lives, especially Stephen W. Kuffler, who opened up the field by studying the cat retina in 1950, and founded the department of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, where most of their work was done. The main part of the book consists of Hubel and Wiesel's most important publications. Each reprinted paper is preceded by a foreword that tells how they went about the research, what the difficulties and the pleasures were, and whether they felt a paper was important and why. Each is also followed by an afterword describing how the paper was received and what developments have occurred since its publication. The reader learns things that are often absent from typical scientific publications, including whether the work was difficult, fun, personally rewarding, exhilarating, or just plain tedious. The book ends with a summing-up of the authors' view of the present state of the field.This is much more than a collection of reprinted papers. Above all it tells the story of an unusual scientific collaboration that was hugely enjoyable and served to transform an entire branch of neurobiology. It will appeal to neuroscientists, vision scientists, biologists, psychologists, physicists, historians of science, and to their students and trainees, at all levels from high school on, as well as anyone else who is interested in the scientific process.…

Condition: New. Presents the story of an exciting and hugely successful 25-year collaboration between two scientists - David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel. This book contains their major papers from 1959 to 1981, each with comments telling how and why the authors went about the study, how the work was received, and what has happened since. Num Pages: 744 pages, numerous halftones and line drawings. BIC Classification: JML; JMM; JMRP; MJQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 259 x 183 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1457. . 2004. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Hardback. Condition: New. Illustrated. Scientists' understanding of two central problems in neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy has been greatly influenced by the work of David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel: What is it to see? This relates to the machinery that underlies visual perception, How do we acquire the brain's mechanisms for vision? This is the nature-nurture question as to whether the nerve connections responsible for vision are innate or whether they develop through experience in the early life of an animal or human.This is a book about the collaboration between Hubel and Wiesel, which began in 1958, lasted until about 1982, and led to a Nobel Prize in 1981. It opens with short autobiographies of both men, describes the state of the field when they started, and tells about the beginnings of their collaboration. It emphasizes the importance of various mentors in their lives, especially Stephen W. Kuffler, who opened up the field by studying the cat retina in 1950, and founded the department of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, where most of their work was done. The main part of the book consists of Hubel and Wiesel's most important publications. Each reprinted paper is preceded by a foreword that tells how they went about the research, what the difficulties and the pleasures were, and whether they felt a paper was important and why. Each is also followed by an afterword describing how the paper was received and what developments have occurred since its publication. The reader learns things that are often absent from typical scientific publications, including whether the work was difficult, fun, personally rewarding, exhilarating, or just plain tedious. The book ends with a summing-up of the authors' view of the present state of the field.This is much more than a collection of reprinted papers. Above all it tells the story of an unusual scientific collaboration that was hugely enjoyable and served to transform an entire branch of neurobiology. It will appeal to neuroscientists, vision scientists, biologists, psychologists, physicists, historians of science, and to their students and trainees, at all levels from high school on, as well as anyone else who is interested in the scientific process.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First edition. Inscribed in the year of publication on half-title page: "For Torsten Wiesel, A Benzer fan. With warmest regards, Jonathan Weiner, April 1999." Wiesel shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries about the visual-cognitive system, and he went on to be the president of Rockefeller University. Jonathan Weiner won the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction for The Beak of the Finch. This book, his next, explores how genes are connected to behavior through the story of "maverick scientist" Seymour Benzer and his innovative fruit fly studies. A fine book in a very good plus jacket with a little rubbing/soiling to spine and one short tear and attending light crease at the top of the front panel. A nice science association. Both Weiner and Wenzel live in New York City. Signed.…

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Frontispiece, pp. 277-299. Original wrappers. Corners of wrappers and pages bumped. Two small indentations in bottom edge of front wrapper. Very Good. First Edition. SIGNED BY TORSTEN WIESEL (on front wrapper). Offprint of Torsten Wiesel's Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1981. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1981 was divided, one half awarded to Roger W. Sperry "for his discoveries concerning the functional specialization of the cerebral hemispheres", the other half jointly to David H. Hubel and Torsten N. Wiesel "for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system." "Our vision works by the light around us being captured by a large number of light-sensitive cells located in the retinas at the back of our eyes. The light is converted into signals that are sent to the brain and there converted into visual impressions. Torsten Wiesel and David Hubel clarified how this process works during the 1960s: In the cerebral cortex signals are analyzed in sequence by cells with the specific tasks of interpreting contrasts, patterns, and movements. They also showed that this ability develops in children during the initial period after birth" (Nobel Prize website). Signed by Author(s).…