Hubel

I asked Margaret Livingstone, a student and longtime colleague of David Hubel who’s now a visual neuroscientist at Harvard, about the importance of Hubel and Weisel’s early discoveries.

Hubel and Wiesel showed that vision was constructed through a cascade of firing cells.

In the following weeks, Hubel and Wiesel discovered a response pattern in the cortical cells.

Armed with the advanced tech, Hubel and a new colleague, Torsten Wiesel—a budding Swedish researcher around the same age—set out to explore the visual cortex of living cats.

Unfastening the belt, Hubel untied the inner bag, and poured the contents upon the table.

You were the daughter of Paul Hubel, of Schleswig—were you not?