A scientific dispute spanning six decades about fundamental mechanisms of visual perception in mammals has now been settled. Researchers at TUM have succeeded in observing the visual information flow ...

Already in the 1960s, Hubel and Wiesel proposed a model according to which visual perception is the result of orderly, stepwise computations in the brain – with specialized neurons in the cortex ...

Last Sunday, September 22nd, our postdoctoral advisor and mentor David Hunter Hubel died at the age of 87. David Hubel was the recipient of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his ...

A scientific dispute spanning six decades about fundamental mechanisms of visual perception in mammals has now been settled. Researchers at TUM have succeeded in observing the visual information flow ...

When I learned at age 48 to see in 3D, despite having been cross-eyed since early infancy, I didn’t think anyone would believe me. After all, David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel had won the Nobel Prize in ...

Hubel’s work focused on understanding how the neurons of the retina communicate visual information to the brain. When he and his collaborator Torsten Wiesel began to examine the visual system in the ...