Horace Barlow

Research.com Recognitions

• 2009 - Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience
• 2006 - Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience
• 2003 - Karl Spencer Lashley Award, The American Philosophical Society In recognition of his fundamental contributions to understanding how the eye and brain accomplish vision
• 1992 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Best Publications

• Single units and sensation: a neuron doctrine for perceptual psychology?

  Horace B Barlow

  2387
  Citations

• The mechanism of directionally selective units in rabbit's retina.

  H B Barlow;W R Levick

  2312
  Citations

• Possible Principles Underlying the Transformations of Sensory Messages

  H. B. Barlow

  1953
  Citations

• The neural mechanism of binocular depth discrimination

  H. B. Barlow;C. Blakemore;J. D. Pettigrew

  1709
  Citations

• Summation and inhibition in the frog's retina

  H. B. Barlow

  1139
  Citations

• RETINAL GANGLION CELLS RESPONDING SELECTIVELY TO DIRECTION AND SPEED OF IMAGE MOTION IN THE RABBIT.

  H. B. Barlow;R. M. Hill;W. R. Levick

  1137
  Citations

• Change of organization in the receptive fields of the cat's retina during dark adaptation

  H. B. Barlow;R. Fitzhugh;S. W. Kuffler

  1033
  Citations

• Temporal and spatial summation in human vision at different background intensities

  H. B. Barlow

  956
  Citations

• Redundancy reduction revisited.

  Horace Barlow

  851
  Citations

• The versatility and absolute efficiency of detecting mirror symmetry in random dot displays

  H.B. Barlow;B.C. Reeves

  658
  Citations

• EVIDENCE FOR A PHYSIOLOGICAL EXPLANATION OF THE WATERFALL PHENOMENON AND FIGURAL AFTER-EFFECTS.

  H B Barlow;R M Hill

  648
  Citations

• Efficiency of human visual signal discrimination.

  AE Burgess;RF Wagner;RJ Jennings;HB Barlow

  583
  Citations

• Selective Sensitivity to Direction of Movement in Ganglion Cells of the Rabbit Retina

  Horace B. Barlow;Richard M. Hill

  579
  Citations

• Adaptation and decorrelation in the cortex

  Horace Barlow;Peter Földiák

  447
  Citations

• The Ferrier Lecture, 1980: Critical Limiting Factors in the Design of the Eye and Visual Cortex

  Horace Basil Barlow

  429
  Citations

• What does the eye see best

  Andrew B. Watson;Andrew B. Watson;H. B. Barlow;John G. Robson

  403
  Citations

• Maintained activity in the cat's retina in light and darkness.

  S. W. Kuffler;R. Fitzhugh;H. B. Barlow

  403
  Citations

• Changes in the maintained discharge with adaptation level in the cat retina

  H. B. Barlow;W. R. Levick

  390
  Citations

• Responses to single quanta of light in retinal ganglion cells of the cat.

  H.B. Barlow;W.R. Levick;M. Yoon

  367
  Citations

• Direction-Selective Units in Rabbit Retina: Distribution of Preferred Directions

  Clyde W. Oyster;Horace B. Barlow

  366
  Citations

• Critical limiting factors in the design of the eye and visual cortex

  H. B. Barlow

  363
  Citations