Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coroner's jury of three blacks and three whites spent a month listening to 100 witnesses. The cause of death, the jurors concluded, was an interruption of the oxygen flow to Lacy's brain due to pressure applied to his chest and to a nerve in his neck. Their ruling last week was the most severe one allowed. It recommended that the three men who arrested Lacy be prosecuted for "homicide by reckless conduct," and that one of them, plus two officers who were in the paddy wagon, be tried for "misconduct in public office and failure...
...spectroscopy," wasn't the only University official "delighted" by the sudden news. His selection made him Harvard's third Nobel Laureate this year, tying a 27-year-old University mark. Just two weeks earlier, two Medical School professors had garnered the prize in medicine for research on how the brain processes visual information...
...inferior to the left, as was once thought, proved clearly superior in some respects, including the capacity for intuitive thinking, interpreting auditory impressions and comprehending spatial relationships. Said the Nobel Committee of Sperry's achievements: "He has provided us with an insight into the inner world of the brain which hitherto had been almost completely hidden from...
...cell within each column, they discovered, has a specific responsibility to perceive and analyze incoming images according to contrast, linear patterns and movement on the retina. Within the columns, the analysis also occurs in a formal sequence. Eventually all this information is relayed to the higher centers in the brain where the "full picture," or visual impression, is assembled and a memory of it stored...
Later researchers have based much of their work on the theories and techniques devised by Sperry, Hubel and Wiesel, but the workings of the brain remain largely a mystery. Hubel insists the puzzle can be solved. Says he: "We can think differently about the mind now. It is not a mystical thing, but something that can be understood...