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Jerome Lettvin

Biology

#267

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#478

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#156

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Jerome Lettvin's Degrees

Masters Medicine University of California, San Diego

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According to Wikipedia, Jerome Ysroael Lettvin , often known as Jerry Lettvin, was an American cognitive scientist, and Professor of Electrical and Bioengineering and Communications Physiology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He is best known as the lead author of the paper, "What the Frog's Eye Tells the Frog's Brain" , one of the most cited papers in the Science Citation Index. He wrote it along with Humberto Maturana, Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts, and in the paper they gave special thanks and mention to Oliver Selfridge at MIT. Lettvin carried out neurophysiological studies in the spinal cord, made the first demonstration of "feature detectors" in the visual system, and studied information processing in the terminal branches of single axons. Around 1969, he originated the term "grandmother cell" to illustrate the logical inconsistency of the concept.

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Jerome Lettvin's Published Works

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What the Frog's Eye Tells the Frog's Brain (1959) (1803)
Anatomy and Physiology of Vision in the Frog (Rana pipiens) (1960) (780)
Physiology of a primary chemoreceptor unit. (1955) (493)
Comments on Microelectrodes (1959) (314)
Multiple meaning in single visual units. (1970) (206)
Two remarks on the visual system of the frog. (1960) (203)
Chemical transmission in the nose of the frog. (1965) (184)
Peripheral vision in persons with dyslexia. (1987) (176)
Reflex inhibition by dorsal root interaction. (1955) (145)
Ionic Conductance Changes in Lobster Axon Membrane When Lanthanum Is Substituted for Calcium (1966) (137)
Anatomy and physiology of a binocular system in the frograna pipiens (1980) (136)
Apomorphine in Parkinson's disease. (1951) (127)
Evidence That Cut Optic Nerve Fibers in a Frog Regenerate to Their Proper Places in the Tectum (1959) (92)
ODOR SPECIFICITIES OF THE FROG'S OLFACTORY RECEPTORS, (1963) (92)
On Seeing Sidelong (1976) (81)
Dyslexic children learn a new visual strategy for reading: a controlled experiment (1994) (71)
Task-determined strategies of visual process. (1992) (61)
Glass-Coated Tungsten Microelectrodes (1965) (54)
Processing of polarized light by squid photoreceptors (1983) (53)
Probability of conduction deficit as related to fiber length in random-distribution models of peripheral neuropathies (1976) (50)
Changes produced in the central nervous system by ultrasound. (1951) (49)
Speculations on smell. (1965) (47)
Anatomy and physiology of a binocular system in the frog Rana pipiens. (1980) (42)
The colors of things. (1986) (42)
Selective, unilateral, reversible loss of behavioral responses to looming stimuli after injection of tetrodotoxin or cadmium chloride into the frog optic nerve (1999) (38)
OCTOPUS OPTIC RESPONSES. (1965) (37)
Footnotes on a Headstage (1958) (35)
Enhancing the Perception of Form in Peripheral Vision (1986) (33)
The Terminal Arborisation of the Cat's Pyramidal Tract Determined by a New Technique ¶ (1955) (32)
1981 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine. (1981) (30)
Sources of electrical transients in tectal neuropil of the frog,Rana pipiens (1991) (19)
General discussion: early receptor potential. (1965) (18)
Dyslexia and Reading as Examples of Alternative Visual Strategies (1989) (17)
Proceedings: The CLOOGE: a simple device for interspike interval analysis. (1974) (13)
Relation of the e-wave to ganglion cell activity and rod responses in the frog (1978) (12)
Functional properties of regenerated optic axons terminating in the primary olfactory cortex (1995) (11)
An electrical hypothesis of central inhibition and facilitation. (1952) (10)
A mathematical theory of the affective psychoses (1943) (9)
Physiology of a Primary Chemoreceptor Unit (1955) (7)
A compartment‐based, asymmetric representation of the retina in an induced projection to the olfactory cortex (1997) (6)
Jagged letters are more easily recognised than smooth ones in the peripheral visual field (1998) (5)
On microelectrodes for plotting currents in nervous tissue. (1953) (5)
The path of suppression in the spinal grey matter. (1948) (4)
A view on dyslexia (1997) (3)
Manifesto on Dyslexia (1993) (2)
Designing GroupWear : Weaving Silicon Threads into the Social Fabric (1997) (2)
Considerations underlying the study of sensory elements (1963) (2)
Somatic functions of the central nervous system. (1948) (1)
Relation of the epsilon-wave to ganglion cell activity and rod responses in the frog. (1978) (1)
The living brain: W. Grey Walter. W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., New York, 1953, 311 pp., $3.95 (1954) (1)
Multiple Meaning in Single Visual Units (Part 2 of 2) (1970) (1)
More Visible Speech (1972) (1)
Dolphins and the Bends (1982) (1)
2 Image Sharpening in the Photoreceptor Layer of the Eye (0)
Der Werwolf Ontology Recapitulates Philology (2002) (0)
Map of electrical current in the cord during a reflex. (1951) (0)
Frog Electrical Transients in the Optic Tectumrn Project Staff (2009) (0)
Characterization and properties of lipase (2015) (0)
Commentary on Visual System Modeling (1973) (0)
Network Notes from Atlanta (1980) (0)
Cross-modal perceptual learning as demonstrated in dyslexics (2010) (0)
1 Peripheral Vision (0)
1 Nervous Signals in the Neuropil of Tectum (0)
How to See Your Own Fovea (1964) (0)
Low Noise, High-Input Impedence Operational Amplifier Using Junction Field Effect Transistors (1969) (0)
Gossiping Nets (1999) (0)
Neurophysiology and Neural Computation (1988) (0)
20 . 2 Visual Function in Dyslexia (0)
18 . 1 A Control Process in Cell Membrane (0)
Warren McCulloch and the origins of AI (1985) (0)
Musings on Walter B. Cannon, the Life and Times of a Young Scientist (review) (2015) (0)

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