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| • | Early 1960’s:
Hubel and Wiesel |
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| – | Microelectrode
recording of axons in primary visual |
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| cortex of animals |
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| – | Discovered
feature detectors: neurons that respond |
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| selectively to
very specific features of more complex |
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| stimuli |
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| • | Simple, complex,
hypercomplex cells |
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| – | Groundbreaking
research: Nobel Prize in 1981 |
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| • | Later research:
cells specific to faces in the |
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| temporal lobes
of monkeys and humans |
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