Exploration of the primary visual cortex, 1955–78

The following article is the lecture delivered by the author in Stockholm on 8 December 1981 when he received the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology which he shared with Roger Sperry and Torsten Wiesel. The article is published here with permission from the Nobel Foundation and will also be included in the complete volume of Les Prix Nobel en 1981 as well as in the series Nobel Lectures (in English) published by Elsevier. The lecture of Dr Wiesel will appear in next week's issue.

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