Wiesel, Torsten Nils

1924– Swedish-American neurophysiologist who made fundamental contributions to our understanding of how the brain processes the information it receives from the eyes and enables us to perceive images.

Keywords: visual cortex; visual processing; David Hubel

 Further Reading
    Hubel DH and Wiesel TN (1979) Brain mechanisms of vision. Scientific American 241: 130.
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Sankaran, Neeraja(Apr 2001) Wiesel, Torsten Nils. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1038/npg.els.0002953]