Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle
Scientist, Author
1918 –
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Who is Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle?
Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle is 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 on the somatosensory cortex used columnar organization as their basis.
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