Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle

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Biology

#1749

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#2845

Historical Rank

#836

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Neuroscience

#183

World Rank

#193

Historical Rank

#77

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Doctorate Medicine Columbia University

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According to Wikipedia, Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle was an American neurophysiologist and Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University. He discovered and characterized the columnar organization of the cerebral cortex in the 1950s. This discovery was a turning point in investigations of the cerebral cortex, as nearly all cortical studies of sensory function after Mountcastle's 1957 paper, on the somatosensory cortex, used columnar organization as their basis.

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Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle's Published Works

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Modality and topographic properties of single neurons of cat's somatic sensory cortex. (1957) (2239)
The columnar organization of the neocortex. (1997) (2164)
Posterior parietal association cortex of the monkey: command functions for operations within extrapersonal space. (1975) (2074)
An organizing principle for cerebral function : the unit module and the distributed system (1978) (1030)
The sense of flutter-vibration: comparison of the human capacity with response patterns of mechanoreceptive afferents from the monkey hand. (1968) (942)
Parietal lobe mechanisms for directed visual attention. (1977) (804)
Cortical neuronal mechanisms in flutter-vibration studied in unanesthetized monkeys. Neuronal periodicity and frequency discrimination. (1969) (703)
The influence of the angle of gaze upon the excitability of the light- sensitive neurons of the posterior parietal cortex (1983) (591)
Some aspects of the functional organization of the cortex of the postcentral gyrus of the monkey: a correlation of findings obtained in a single unit analysis with cytoarchitecture. (1959) (544)
NEURAL ACTIVITY IN MECHANORECEPTIVE CUTANEOUS AFFERENTS: STIMULUS-RESPONSE RELATIONS, WEBER FUNCTIONS, AND INFORMATION TRANSMISSION. (1965) (460)
Perceptual Neuroscience: The Cerebral Cortex (1998) (450)
The functional properties of the light-sensitive neurons of the posterior parietal cortex studied in waking monkeys: foveal sparing and opponent vector organization (1981) (411)
The Mindful Brain: Cortical Organization and the Group-Selective Theory of Higher Brain Function (1978) (400)
THE FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES OF VENTROBASAL THALAMIC NEURONSSTUDIED IN UNANESTHETIZED MONKEYS. (1963) (394)
Detection thresholds for stimuli in humans and monkeys: comparison with threshold events in mechanoreceptive afferent nerve fibers innervating the monkey hand. (1972) (384)
The influence of attentive fixation upon the excitability of the light- sensitive neurons of the posterior parietal cortex (1981) (344)
Neural mechanisms subserving cutaneous sensibility, with special reference to the role of afferent inhibition in sensory perception and discrimination. (1959) (330)
Response properties of neurons of cat's somatic sensory cortex to peripheral stimuli. (1957) (309)
THE VARIABILITY OF CENTRAL NEURAL ACTIVITY IN A SENSORY SYSTEM, AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE CENTRAL REFLECTION OF SENSORY EVENTS. (1963) (286)
Functional properties of parietal visual neurons: radial organization of directionalities within the visual field (1987) (279)
Capacities of humans and monkeys to discriminate vibratory stimuli of different frequency and amplitude: a correlation between neural events and psychological measurements. (1975) (277)
THE RELATION OF THALAMIC CELL RESPONSE TO PERIPHERAL STIMULI VARIED OVER AN INTENSIVE CONTINUUM. (1963) (259)
Some forebrain mechanisms involved in expression of rage with special reference to suppression of angry behavior. (1948) (236)
Brain Mechanisms for Directed Attention 1 (1978) (210)
Visual input to the visuomotor mechanisms of the monkey's parietal lobe. (1977) (207)
The representation of tactile sensibility in the thalamus of the monkey (1952) (206)
Common and differential effects of attentive fixation on the excitability of parietal and prestriate (V4) cortical visual neurons in the macaque monkey (1987) (193)
The sensory hand : neural mechanisms of somatic sensation (2005) (182)
Higher functions of the brain (1987) (180)
Functional properties of parietal visual neurons: mechanisms of directionality along a single axis (1987) (176)
Introduction. Computation in cortical columns. (2003) (173)
Intrinsic regulatory systems of the brain (1986) (169)
Pattern of tactile representation in thalamus of cat. (1949) (160)
Neural Basis of the Sense of Flutter-Vibration (1967) (159)
The problem of sensing and the neural coding of sensory events (1967) (149)
Disorders in somesthesis following lesions of parietal lobe. (1979) (137)
A study of the functional contributions of the lemniscal and spinothalamic systems to somatic sensibility. Central nervous mechanisms in pain. (1960) (133)
Adaptation of the Reitboeck method of multiple microelectrode recording to the neocortex of the waking monkey (1991) (112)
A Laser Stimulator for the Study of Cutaneous Thermal and Pain Sensations (1976) (110)
The parietal system and some higher brain functions. (1995) (108)
From Neuron to Action (1990) (101)
Central nervous mechanisms subserving position sense and kinesthesis. (1959) (87)
The cytoarchitecture of the postcentral gyrus of the monkey Macaca mulatta. (1959) (78)
From Neuron to Action: An Appraisal of Fundamental and Clinical Research (1991) (77)
The evolution of ideas concerning the function of the neocortex. (1995) (66)
The view from within: pathways to the study of perception. (1975) (47)
Neuronal Coding by Cortical Cells of the Frequency of Oscillating Peripheral Stimuli (1968) (47)
Selective output-discriminative signals in the motor cortex of waking monkeys. (1992) (37)
The visual functions of the parietal lobe (1984) (32)
Activity of single neurons in the tactile thalamic region of the cat in response to a transient peripheral stimulus. (1954) (28)
The world around us: neural command function for selective attention. (1976) (27)
Temporal Order Determinants in a Somesthetic Frequency Discrimination: Sequential Order Coding (1993) (27)
The Neural Transformation of Mechanical Stimuli Delivered to the Monkey's Hand (2008) (26)
Central Nervous Mechanisms in Mechanoreceptive Sensibility (2011) (25)
The central representation of some forms of deep sensibility. (1952) (25)
Cortical neuronal periodicities and frequency discrimination in the sense of flutter. (1990) (19)
The Neural Replication of Sensory Events in the Somatic Afferent System (1965) (19)
Mechanisms of neural integration in the parietal lobe for visual attention. (1978) (18)
The neural mechanisms of cognitive functions can now be studied directly (1986) (16)
Neural Mechanisms in Somesthesis: Recent Progress and Future Problems (1984) (15)
Brain Science at the Century’s Ebb (2017) (12)
Visual Word Recognition Visual Word Recognition (11)
The Gordon Wilson lecture. Representations and the construction of reality. (1988) (5)
Brain mechanisms of perception (1994) (5)
Suppression and facilitation of angry behavior by certain forebrain mechanisms. (1948) (5)
Somatic functions of the nervous system. (1958) (3)
The Parietal Visual System and some Aspects of Visuospatial Perception (1990) (2)
A Laser Stimulator fortheStudyofCutaneous Thermal andPain Sensations (1976) (0)
Vision Research Program Planning (1975) (0)
Philip Barb 1898-1977. (1977) (0)
Philip Bard 1898-1977. (1977) (0)
The presentation of a portrait of Dr. Philip Bard: June 17, 1971. (1971) (0)
REPRESENTATIONS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY * (2003) (0)
Proceedings: Neuron activities in the posterior parietal association areas and visual orientation. (1974) (0)
Visual Responses in Adult Cat Visual Cor- Tex Depend on N-methyl-d-aspartate Receptors (0)
Dynamic Neuronal Operations within the Somatic Sensory Cortex (2017) (0)
Tactile localization in the thalamus of cat and monkey. (1948) (0)

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