![]() (Damasio, 37)įunctional Neurons: editor's note - includes neurons grouped by the brain function they support. (Sacks6, 168) Neurons, as far as one can fathom, are unique cells, of a kind unlike any other in the body, unlike even other kinds of brain cells. They describe neurons specialized for the detection of lines, orientations, edges, corners, etc. ![]() Soon, individual neurons were being labeled as visual neurons, “mirror neurons,” “face neurons,” touch neurons, even ‘grandmother neurons.’ (Nicolelis, 46) In the early 1960’s… David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel (performed) … groundbreaking experiments on visual perception, recording from neurons in the “visual cortex” in animals. Throughout the twentieth century, localizationists would proceed to divide the cerebral cortex into visual, auditory, tactile, motor, olfactory, and gustatory centers. We now use the terms "sensory" and "motor" to distinguish these two types. Neuron Types: Galen, a second century Greek Physician, experimented widely on nerves and gradually developed the idea that nerves can either return information to the brain from the organs of sight, sound, smell, taste, or touch, or transmit impulses to the muscles to make them contract.
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