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Clinton Nathan Woolsey
Pages 360-374

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From page 361...
... animals en c! by application of electrical stimulation.
From page 362...
... to enter meclical school. Among his most impressionable experiences at Union College was a remarkable psychology professor, Johnny March, who "clescribed the experiments of PavIov and Sherrington so vividly that one felt in the presence of these investigators and their experimental animals." As a result of this, Woolsey consiclerec!
From page 363...
... . Woolsey remained at Hopkins in physiology until 194S, when he accepted his appointment as Charles Sumner Slichter professor of neurophysiology at the University of Wisconsin medical and graduate schools in Madison.
From page 364...
... using this technique we completec! the first single-unit recording study of the tonotopic organization of the auditory cortex (in cat)
From page 365...
... Woolsey became the Charles Sumner Slichter professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin in 1975, but he by no means retiree! from his work.
From page 366...
... Because of the central location of the hand areas, the simple basic pattern of organization seen in the rodent, where the parts are represented in relation to one another much as they exist in the actual animal, apparently becomes distorted in evolution as cortical representation for the hand increases, with the result that in chimpanzee and in man the sensory and the motor face areas lose continuity with the centers for occiput and neck, which remain associated with the trunk representations. In macaque this separation of face from occiput has taken place in the postcentral gyrus, but in the precentral field the motor pattern still hangs together as it does in lower forms.
From page 367...
... a technical tour cle force by selectively stimulating TocaTizec! regions of auditory nerve fibers in the cochlea en c!
From page 368...
... lesion retrograde degeneration mapping of the projections from the auditory region of the thalamus (meclial geniculate bocly) to the auditory cortex in light of the physiological organization of the auditory cortex Woolsey en c!
From page 369...
... have well-organized motor outflows which are still functional months after complete removal of the motor areas of the frontal lobe, while at the same time it appears that afferent connections to the frontal motor areas exist independently of the parietal afferent paths (Figure 1~. Thus, the concept that the rolandic region is indeed a sensorimotor system, as held by pre-Sheringtonian workers, is reaffirmed, but with the considerable difference that the region is not an undifferentiated entity but one compounded of a number of distinguishable, individually complete, though interrelated, sensory-motor and motorsensory representations.
From page 370...
... The dark regions on the figurines on the right are the cortical loci where least-intensity electrical stimulation yielcis the minimal movement shown. Note the exquisite cletail.
From page 371...
... since. ~ AC~OWLEDGE MOST gratefully the following documents that provided information, particularly on the early phases of Clinton Woolsey's life: the autobiographical document dated April 10,1989, that Clinton Woolsey wrote to the National Academy of Sciences; the original nomination (circa 1959)
From page 372...
... Bard. Observations on cortical somatic sensory mechanisms of cat and monkey.
From page 373...
... Rose. The relations of thalamic connections, cellular structure and evocable electrical activity in the auditory region of the cat.
From page 374...
... Localization in somatic sensory and motor areas of human cerebral cortex as determined by direct recording of evoked potentials and electrical stimulation.


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