Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Do we learn to see?

  • Face to Face
  • Published:
Resonance Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Suggested Reading

  1. H Kolb, E Fernandez, R Nelson, editors. Webvision: The Organization of the Retina and Visual System, [Internet]. Salt Lake City (UT): University of Utah Health Sciences Center; 1995. Bookshelf ID: NBK11530.

    Google Scholar 

  2. D H Hubel, The Visual Cortex of the Brain, Sci. Am., Vol.209, No.5, pp.54–63, 1963.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  3. Eric R Kandel, An introduction to the work of David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel, J. Physiol., Vol.587, No.12, pp.2733–2741, 2009.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  4. D H Hubel, Eye, Brain and Vision, W H Freeman, NY, 1995. URL: http://hubel.med.harvard.edu/book/bcontex.htm (online version)

    Google Scholar 

  5. Torsten N Wiesel, The Postnatal Development of the Visual Cortex and the Influence of Environment, Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1981. URL:http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1981/wiesel-lecture.html.

  6. David H Hubel, Evolution of Ideas on the Primary Visual Cortex, 1955–1978: A Biased Historical Account, Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1906. URL: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1981/hubel-lecture.html.

  7. T N Wiesel and D H Hubel, Effects of Visual Deprivation on Morphology and Physiology of Cells in the Cats Lateral Geniculate Body, J. Neurophysiol., Vol.26, pp.978–993, 1963.

    Google Scholar 

  8. D H Hubel and T N Wiesel, Receptive fields of single neurones in the cat’s striate cortex, J. Physiol., Vol.148, pp.574–591, 1959.

    Google Scholar 

  9. V S Ramachandran, Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind, William Morrow, NY, 1998.

    Google Scholar 

  10. Purves et al, Neuroscience, Third Edition, Sinauer Associates, Inc. 2004.

  11. D H Hubel and T N Wiesel, Early exploration of the Visual Cortex. Neuron, Vol.20, pp.401–412, 1998.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  12. Prasanna Venkhatesh V, Santiago Ramon y Cajal: Father of Neurosciences, Resonance, Vol.15, No.11, pp.968–976, 2010.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  13. Richard L Gregory, Eye and Brain: The Psychology of Seeing, Fifth Edition, Princeton University Press. 1998.

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560 012, India

    V. Prasanna Venkhatesh

Authors
  1. V. Prasanna Venkhatesh
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Prasanna Venkhatesh, V. Do we learn to see?. Reson 16, 88–99 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-011-0013-4

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-011-0013-4

Keywords

Search

Navigation