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    Jerome Ysroael Lettvin (February 23, 1920 – April 23, 2011), often known as Jerry Lettvin, was an American cognitive scientist, and Professor of Electrical...
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    there, without registering as a student. While there, in 1938 he met Jerome Lettvin, a pre-medical student, and the two became close friends. Russell was...
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  • Emeritus Jerome Lettvin, with whom she served as houseparent of the MIT Bexley dorm. They had three children: David, Ruth, and Jonathan. Lettvin, Maggie...
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  • The Leary–Lettvin debate was a May 3, 1967 debate between Jerome Lettvin, a medical doctor and professor at MIT, and Timothy Leary, a licensed psychologist...
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    street from Harvard, Jerome Lettvin was electrophysiologically recording from the frog optic nerve. Maturana made contact with Lettvin through J.Z. Young...
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  • Lettvin, two Jewish-Ukrainian immigrants who settled in Chicago. Neurophysiologist and MIT professor Jerome Lettvin was his eldest brother. Lettvin's...
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    Gehrig's disease) and Huntington's disease were first discovered at MIT. Jerome Lettvin transformed the study of cognitive science with his paper "What the...
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  • 1945, 89–93. 1959, "What The Frog's Eye Tells The Frog's Brain". With Jerome Lettvin, H.R. Maturana and W.H. Pitts. In: Proc. of the I. R. E. Vol 47 (11)...
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  • Jon Kaas Eric Kandel Nathaniel Kleitman Christof Koch Stephen Kosslyn Jerome Lettvin Rodolfo Llinás Terje Lømo David Marr Earl K. Miller Richard G. Morris...
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    medical school because of her gender. Gibb then worked with Professor Jerome Lettvin at MIT on epistemology and color vision while studying law. In 1974...
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  • perception and there are no such things as Red, Green, or Blue photons. Jerome Lettvin wrote an article in the Scientific American illustrating the importance...
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  • in Bradford; the Asteroid theme of Pearl & Dean; cognitive scientist Jerome Lettvin; John Grover and the 1989 film Licence to Kill; with the documentary...
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    ratings guru. Also among former Bexley residents were Institute Professor Jerome Lettvin and his wife Maggie who were Bexley "houseparents" in the 1970s and...
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  • trigger specific behavioral responses in an animal. In the late 1950s, Jerome Lettvin and his colleagues began to expand the feature detection hypothesis...
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  • Julien Jean Legallois 1770–1814 France Lars Leksell 1907–1986 Sweden Jerome Lettvin 1920–2011 United States Simon LeVay 1943– United Kingdom - United States...
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  • influencing each other". He believes Marvin Minsky's Society of Mind and Jerome Lettvin's society of neurons are useful models. Kurzweil differentiates logical...
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    of treatment programs. List of Veterans Affairs medical facilities Jerome Y. Lettvin, head psychiatrist circa 1950 Taylor, Troy (2005). Weird Illinois...
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  • Morris Moscovitch Larry Squire Vision David Marr Stephen Kosslyn Roger Shepard Brian Wandell Jerome Lettvin David Hubel Torsten Wiesel Leslie Ungerleider...
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  • and Jerome Lettvin. Chomsky's generative grammar concepts inspired Lagin's thinking about creating generative music forms (1968), and Lettvin connected...
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  • Books, 1995). A number of these poems were translated into English by Jerome Lettvin with explanations of Morgensterns wordplay methods and their relationship...
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  • began her studies in biophysics, working with Patrick David Wall and Jerome Lettvin on research leading to the invention of transcutaneous electrical nerve...
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    hole" of an office in Building 20 for several decades. MIT professor Jerome Y. Lettvin once quipped, "You might regard it as the womb of the Institute. It...
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  • detectors", but the term did not gain wide usage. Several years later, Jerome (Jerry) Lettvin and others also studied these and other cells, eventually resulting...
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    Club and the MIT Electronic Research Society (MITERS). Professor Jerome Y. Lettvin once quipped, "You might regard it as the womb of the Institute. It...
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    Leary engaged in a televised debate on drug use with MIT professor Jerry Lettvin. At the end of 1967, Leary moved to Laguna Beach, California, and made...
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    February 1874: "F. M. Balfour to visit Naples").[2][permanent dead link] Jerome Y. Lettvin. Researched octopus visual neurophysiology in the summers of 1959...
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  • Houstoun Eugene Istomin Aglaia Koras Anton Kuerti Ruth Laredo Theodore Lettvin James Levine Cecile Licad Seymour Lipkin Lee Luvisi Hephzibah Menuhin Yaltah...
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  • Robert Silbey joined the staff. Past directors include David Adler, Jerome "Jerry" Lettvin, and Robert M. Rose (1989-2009). Cheryl Butters was the program...
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    University of Michigan, where she continued her musical training with Theodore Lettvin.[citation needed] Sarah Cahill has commissioned, premiered and recorded...
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    space, than was possible in more respectable buildings. Professor Jerome Y. Lettvin once quipped, "You might regard it as the womb of the Institute. It...
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