biography
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Mountcastle, Vernon (Benjamin)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1918– )
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| biography:
| Neurophysiologist, born in Shelbyville, Kentucky, USA. He trained at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he joined the faculty in 1946. His research has been concerned with neural mechanisms in sensation and perception, and his book (with G M Edelman), The Mindful Brain (1978), has been influential. |
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