Canadian-American physiologist David Hubel and Swedish physiologist Torsten Wiesel won Nobel prizes for their work in visual development. They performed pioneering single-cell recordings of the visual cortex, demonstrating the presence of simple, complex, and hypercomplex feature detector cells. American psychobiologist Roger Sperry was awarded the Nobel prize for his split brain research that demonstrated the functional independence and differentiation of abilities of the two cerebral hemispheres.

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