Hubel & Wiesel

David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel were pioneering neuroscientists who studied how the brain processes visual information. They discovered how individual neurons in the visual cortex respond to specific features like edges, orientations, and movement, revealing the brain's hierarchical way of interpreting complex visual stimuli. Their work, which earned them the Nobel Prize in 1981, provided foundational insights into visual perception and how the brain reconstructs what we see from raw sensory input, significantly advancing our understanding of the neural basis of sight.