Jerome Lettvin
Jerome Lettvin · Science & Medicine
Neuroscientist whose paper 'What the Frog's Eye Tells the Frog's Brain' reshaped sensory neuroscience.
1920, Chicago, United States — 2011, Hingham, United States
United States
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Jerome Lettvin was a cognitive scientist and neuroscientist whose 1959 paper 'What the Frog's Eye Tells the Frog's Brain' showed that the eye already processes and interprets visual features rather than merely transmitting them, reshaping sensory neuroscience. He worked at MIT and was a wide-ranging public intellectual. He was born in Chicago to a Jewish family.
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Neuroscientist whose paper 'What the Frog's Eye Tells the Frog's Brain' reshaped sensory neuroscience.
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