[FUN_Mail] Another classic paper

Mon Sep 8 15:14:03 EDT 2014

I suppose I'm old school too, but my nominee would be Hubel and Wiesel's classic paper on primary visual cortex:

Hubel DH & Wiesel TN (1962). Receptive fields, binocular interaction and functional architecture in the cat's visual cortex. J Physiol 160, 106–154.

This paper made sense of what neurons in the cortex were doing in creating the next step in visual perception, and it also revealed how they were arranged anatomically. It was a major step in advancing our understanding of the mammalian brain, and it opened a huge field of research on visual processing that is still flourishing today.

Best wishes,
Richard Olivo
rolivo at smith.edu

On Sep 8, 2014, at 1:16 PM, "Gizerian, Samantha via FUN_Mail" <fun_mail at lists.funfaculty.org> wrote:

> Call me old school, but the paper that really blew my mind, and continues to amaze students is Hodgkin and Huxley J. Physiol. (1952) 117, 500-44.  (here: http://www.sfn.org/~/media/SfN/Documents/ClassicPapers/ActionPotentials/hodgkin5.ashx)  The whole series is great, but the last paper summing up the experiments is really the one that is amazing.  In context of the time and techniques available, it is a pretty stunning achievement as well.  Not to mention that finally we have the tangible connection that students are looking for between the physics they didn't want to learn and the neuroscience they signed up for.
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> The "Inception" paper from the Tonegawa lab was the one that came to mind for me too...!
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> On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Schettino, Luis F. via FUN_Mail < fun_mail at lists.funfaculty.org> wrote:
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>> Wow, this is EXACTLY what came to my mind when I read the question. No 
>> doubt this article is one of the coolest studies out there. It is 
>> incredibly creative and technically challenging. Great suggestion Ian!
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>> What a great question, Bill! BTW, it sounds like a nice way to put 
>> together the perfect reading list for a seminar class. Can I suggest 
>> either that the replies go to the whole list or that Bill posts the results?
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>> Maybe I'm guilty of some kind of recency effect with this suggestion 
>> since I just used it in class but if they have some interest in 
>> plasticity and behavior I'd have to suggest von Melchner, Pallas, & Sur (2000):
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>> http://web.mit.edu/msur/www/publications/visual.pdf
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>> It was preceded by a companion paper by Sharma, Angelucci, & Sur 
>> (2000) that is purely physiological:
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>> http://web.mit.edu/msur/www/publications/induction.pdf
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>> I suppose if you're going to publish in Nature you might as well do it 
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