Jerome Y. Lettvin
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Jerome Y. Lettvin was an influential American neuroscientist and MIT professor best known for his pioneering work on how the nervous system processes visual information, including the landmark paper “What the frog’s eye tells the frog’s brain.”
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| Jerome Y. Lettvin canonical | 1 |
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| instanceOf |
American
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academic ⓘ human ⓘ neuroscientist ⓘ professor ⓘ scientist ⓘ |
| authorOf | What the frog’s eye tells the frog’s brain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coAuthor |
Humberto Maturana
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Walter H. Pitts NERFINISHED ⓘ Warren S. McCulloch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1920-02-23 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2011-04-23 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Boston University
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University of Chicago ⓘ |
| employer | Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| familyName | Lettvin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cybernetics
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neurophysiology ⓘ neuroscience ⓘ physiology ⓘ vision science ⓘ |
| givenName | Jerome NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
artificial intelligence
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cognitive science ⓘ computational neuroscience ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Norbert Wiener
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Warren S. McCulloch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
concept of feature-detecting neurons
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experimental work on the frog visual system ⓘ influential teaching at MIT ⓘ pioneering studies of how the nervous system processes visual information ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| mainSubjectOfWork |
feature detectors in the visual system
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retinal processing ⓘ visual information processing ⓘ |
| memberOf | faculty of the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT ⓘ |
| notableStudent | Noam Chomsky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | What the frog’s eye tells the frog’s brain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Chicago NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Hadera NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| researchFocus |
neural coding of sensory information
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physiology of the vertebrate retina ⓘ relationship between perception and behavior ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Maggie Lettvin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Cambridge, Massachusetts ⓘ |
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