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...hemispheres, Roger Sperry, 68, of the California Institute of Technology, won half of the $181,818 prize. The other half was divided between David Hubel, 55, and Torsten Wiesel, 57, both professors of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, for discovering how images are transferred from the eye's retina to the brain...
...cortex, the researchers discovered that the cells in the cortex are arranged in a regular pattern in columns organized into equally regular "hypercolumns." Each 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...
...David H. Hubel '55, Berry Professor of Neurobiology, and Dr. Torsten N. Wiesel '57, Winthrop Professor of Neurobiology, shared the award with Dr. Roger W. Sperry, a professor at the California Institute of Technology. During nearly 20 years of collaboration, Hubel and Wiesel discovered the method by which the retina transmits information to the brain. The Nobel Assembly cited the scientists' work as a "breakthrough in research into the ability of the brain to interpret the code of the impulse message from the eyes...
...HARDIN in 1968, but the official verdict holds that Hardin's record still stands because the school does not consider the differences between handtimed and electronically-timed races. . . . Associate track coach and part-time football referee ED STOWELL took time off recently for an operation to correct a torn retina. Head coach BILL McCURDY's comment on the problem: "It only goes to prove what we've always thought about refs...
...Stellar's will alight on the garden dirt, cock his head in disdain, scream twice, burst off into the hemlock and set the lower branches dancing almost before its blue sheen has blazed on my retina. What a vacancy a jay leaves...