Abstract
Professor Ottoson, friends and colleagues: I am pleased to be invited to attend this symposium, and to participate in this opening program. Firstly, because it honours Professor Yngve Zotterman, whom I admired greatly for his many contributions to the subject we address: the neural mechanisms in somesthesis. And, for his warm and effervescent personality, filled with collegiality for Neurophysiologists from every land. Secondly, because I have for a dozen years worked in a different field, the central neural mechanisms of spatial perception and directed visual attention. I hope this temporal detachment will lend some perspective to what I wish to say. That is, to summarize what I perceive to have been the main advances of the last decades; and, to suggest where opportunity lies in the years ahead.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Copyright information
© 1984 The Wenner-Gren Center
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Mountcastle, V.B. (1984). Neural Mechanisms in Somesthesis: Recent Progress and Future Problems. In: von Euler, C., Franzén, O., Lindblom, U., Ottoson, D. (eds) Somatosensory Mechanisms. Wenner-Gren Center International Symposium Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07292-7_1
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07292-7_1
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, London
Print ISBN: 978-1-349-07294-1
Online ISBN: 978-1-349-07292-7
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life SciencesBiomedical and Life Sciences (R0)