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Victor Ostromoukhov - Université de Montréal
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Neural Codes
Hartline
1967 Nobel Prize
The horseshoe crab
(Limulus polyphemus)
The Hero
1930s
Oscillogram of the electrical activity of a receptor unit in
the lateral eye of Limulus
From Hartline’s Nobel Prize Lecture, December 12, 1967
•Discovery
of the mechanism of communication between the eye and
the brain
•Lateral
inhibition explained