Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle
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Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle (July 15, 1918 – January 11, 2015) was an American neurophysiologist and Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University. He discovered and characterized the columnar organization of the cerebral cortex in the 1950s. This discovery was a turning point in investigations of the cerebral cortex, as nearly all cortical studies of sensory function after Mountcastle's 1957 paper,[1] on the somatosensory cortex, used columnar organization as their basis.[2][3][4][5][6][7]
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Born | Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle (1918-07-15)July 15, 1918 |
Died | January 11, 2015(2015-01-11) (aged 96) |
Education | Roanoke College |
Spouse | Nancy Clayton |
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Institutions | Johns Hopkins University |
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