Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle

American neuroscientist

Date of Birth: 15-Jul-1918

Place of Birth: Kentucky, United States

Date of Death: 11-Jan-2015

Profession: physician, university teacher, neuroscientist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle (July 15, 1918 – January 11, 2015) was Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University.
He discovered and characterized the columnar organization of the cerebral cortex in the 1950s.
This discovery was a turning point in investigations of the cerebral cortex, as nearly all cortical studies of sensory function after Mountcastle's 1957 paper, on the somatosensory cortex, used columnar organization as their basis.