The following is the lecture delivered by the author in Stockholm on 8 December 1981 when
he received the Nobel Prize in Medicine, which he shared with Roger Sperry and David H …

Cortical neuromodulatory transmitter systems refer to those classical neurotransmitters such
as acetylcholine and monoamines, which share a number of common features. For instance …

Ocular dominance columns were examined by a variety of techniques in juvenile macaque
monkeys in which one eye had been removed or sutured closed soon after birth. In two …

The main purpose of this study was to examine the normal postnatal development of ocular
dominance columns in the striate cortex of the macaque monkey and to determine how this …

Postnatal development of rat visual cortical functions was studied by recording
extracellularly from the primary visual cortex of 22 animals ranging in age from postnatal day …

Primate visual cortical area 18 (visual area 2), when stained for the enzyme cytochrome
oxidase, shows a pattern of alternating dark and light stripes; in squirrel monkeys, the dark …

Amblyopia is a developmental disorder of pattern vision. After surgical creation of esotropic
strabismus in the first weeks of life or after wearing− 10 diopter contact lenses in one eye to …

The main object of this study was to see whether ordered sequences of orientation columns
are present in very young visually naive monkeys. Recordings were made from area 17 in …

Purpose: In order to assess the sensitive period for strabismic amblyopia, the period of
susceptibility to monocular occlusion was investigated in 407 children who ranged in age …

To further our understanding of the cortical deficit in strabismic amblyopia, we measured,
compared and mapped functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) activation between …