Mountcastle

Mountcastle

Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle (* 15. Juli 1918 in Shelbyville, Kentucky) ist ein US-amerikanischer Neurowissenschaftler.

Mountcastle war von 1964 bis 1980 Nachfolger von Philip Bard als Direktor des Department of Physiology at the School of Medicine an der Johns Hopkins University. Hier gründete er die Philip Bard Laboratories of Neurophysiology, die Teil des Department of Neuroscience wurden.

1966 wurde er in die National Academy of Sciences gewählt. 1978 wurde er mit dem Louisa Gross Horwitz-Preis, 1983 mit dem Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research und 1986 mit der United States National Medal of Science ausgezeichnet.

Veröffentlichungen

  • Mountcastle, V. (1957): Modality and Topographic Properties of Single Neurons of Cat's Somatic Sensory Cortex. J Neurophysiol. 20: 408-434
  • Vernon Mountcastle (1978), An Organizing Principle for Cerebral Function: The Unit Model and the Distributed System, in: Mindful Brain: Cortical Organization and the Group-Selective Theory of Higher Brain Function (Gerald M. Edelman and Vernon B. Mountcastle, eds.) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Personendaten
NAME Mountcastle, Vernon
KURZBESCHREIBUNG US-amerikanischer Neurowissenschaftler
GEBURTSDATUM 15. Juli 1918
GEBURTSORT Shelbyville, Kentucky

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