"Neuroscience in the Time of the Beatles: The 60’s and 70’s"

 Abstract:
I’m at the age that one is asked to talk about the history of one’s field. It is easiest for me to talk about the time I was a graduate student and a postdoc, and what the scientists did at that time. The Beatles weren’t that popular with me, but they provide a happier definition of the period than the protests against the war, or those against racial discrimination. What stands out most in my memory is that this was a time of change. The few research techniques at the beginning of this period were being supplemented by the emergence of microelectrode recording, audioradiographic and histochemical methods of revealing brain connections, and the use of computers in biological research. A relatively small number of investigators greatly advanced the field. I hope to mention some of the contributions of my advisor, Irving Diamond, David Hubel, Walle Nauta, Vernon Mountcastle, Ray Guillery, Clinton Woolsey, Jerzy Rose, and Robert Erickson.

Thursday, December 10, 2009
12:10 p.m.
316 Wilson Hall

Abstract

Department of Psychology NEUROSCIENCE SEMINAR SERIES

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