David H Hubel

Quick Facts

Full Name	David H Hubel
Occupation	Physiologist
Date Of Birth	Feb 27, 1926(1926-02-27)
Age	98
Date Of Death	2013-09-22
Country	Canada
Horoscope	Aquarius

David H Hubel Biography

David H Hubel is one of the most popular and richest Physiologist who was born on February 27, 1926 in Canada. The world-renowned researcher is known for his work regarding the visual cortex in the brain He was awarded in 1981 the Nobel Prize in Physiology. As an academic and teacher, he taught for a number of times at Harvard University Medical School.

His name and that of molecular biologist He and molecular biologist Walter Gilbert were both early 1980s recipients of the Nobel Prize. were both early 1980s winners in the early 1980s of Nobel Prizes. Nobel Prize.

His union with Ruth Izzard resulted in three sons , and the marriage was in place from 1953 until Izzard’s passing in February of 2013. (Hubel passed away from kidney failure only seven months after that).

David H Hubel Net Worth

David H Hubel is one of the richest Physiologist from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, David H Hubel 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He received an undergraduate degree from physics, as well as an MD degree at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.

His research collaborator and colleague and Nobel Prize recipient, Torsten Wiesel, researched visual processing through tests on cats.

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David Ranked on the list of most popular Physiologist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. David H Hubel celebrates birthday on February 27 of every year.

What did David Hubel contribution to psychology?

David Hubel, who has died aged 87, was one of the greats of neuroscience. He discovered how individual brain cells convey the information that enables us to see the world , how these cells are organised in an exquisite crystalline structure and how they are moulded by experience in early life.

What is Hubel and Wiesel theory?

Hubel and Wiesel hypothesized that there was a time period during which the visual nerve cells develop and that if the retina did not receive any visual information at that time, the cells of the visual cortex redistribute their response in favor of the working eye.

What did David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel discover?

Hubel and Wiesel demonstrated that some neurons were only responsive to information that came from a single eye , a phenomenon they referred to as “ocular dominance”. Intriguingly, neurons that are tuned to a particular eye cluster together in anatomical columns in the visual cortex of the brain.

What did David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel discover about perception and the

visual feature detectors in the brain?

They found that during a sensitive period early in infancy if animals were deprived of vision from one eye the ocular dominance columns for that eye would regress while the columns representing the eye that still received vision would dominate the visual cortex.

What did Hubel and Wiesel discover quizlet?

Hubel and Wiesel discovered feature detector cells in the visual cortex that respond selectively to: lines at different orientations.