Author

David H. Hubel

David H. Hubel (born 1926) was a Canadian-born neuroscientist who, with Torsten Wiesel, studied the visual cortex of cats and other animals to reveal how neurons respond to specific visual features. Their experiments established key principles of visual processing, including receptive fields and columnar organization. Hubel and Wiesel’s work is foundational to vision science and earned them the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Other notable works include Vision and Brain (with Wiesel) and The Mindful Brain (with Wiesel).