Horace Barlow (1921-2020)

David Burr; Simon Laughlin

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2020.07.060

Horace Barlow (1921-2020)

Curr Biol. 2020 Aug 17;30(16):R907-R910. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.07.060. Epub 2020 Jul 31.

Authors

David Burr¹, Simon Laughlin²

Affiliations

¹ Professor of Physiological Psychology at the University of Florence, Florence, Italy. Electronic address: dcb492@gmail.com.
² Emeritus Professor of Neurobiology at Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK. Electronic address: sl104@cam.ac.uk.

PMID: 33242002
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.07.060

Abstract

An obituary by David Burr and Simon Laughlin of visual neuroscientist Horace Barlow, whose contributions to the understanding of brain function inspired generations of neurophysiologists, psychologists and computational neuroscientists.

Publication types

Biography
Historical Article

MeSH terms

History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Humans
Neurosciences / history*

Personal name as subject

Horace Barlow